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...days after the crash the body of Oumansky was cremated in the same oven that had been used to cremate Leon Trotsky, murdered (by a GPU agent) in Mexico City four and a half years...
...latter killed in a fighter-plane crash in California
...their effortless achievement at once of superhuman force and grandeur and of jewel-like delicacy, might well make this film the envy of good poets and painters for the rest of time. Later on, over Truk and Kwajalein and the Marianas, these shots-plus some hair-raising ones of crash-landings on the carrier deck-heap one astonishment so thickly upon another that the eye and mind can hardly keep pace. For violent air action and for pure visual magnificence, The Fighting Lady is not likely ever to be beaten...
Killed in Action. Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, 61, General Eisenhower's naval commander in chief, topnotch amphibious-operations officer, who organized the evacuation from Dunkirk, planned and executed the naval phases of the Allied invasions of North Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy; in a plane crash near Paris. A quiet, aloof man (nicknamed "Dynamo" by admiring associates), Ramsay refused to let Churchill watch the landings in Normandy, on the grounds that he and his men would have enough to do without worrying about the Prime Minister's security...
Byrd's men made a hard decision. Of the 61 dogs, 34 were shot. But if the plane should crash on the second takeoff, the men would need dogs to help them try an escape over the ice. Reluctantly they buried three 50-lb. sticks of dynamite, under the snow, staked the 27 youngest and strongest dogs over the charges, attached to the dynamite an alarm clock rigged to close an electric circuit and set off the charges. It was set to go off three hours after the takeoff. The plane barely got off the ice. As they flew...