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They will be issued special flashlights with dark red lenses that are suitable for use in a blackout. Billies, modeled after the ones used by the Navy, also will be distributed, and an attempt is being made to secure crash-proof helmets...
...pilot pointed his failing plane at the carrier's deck, glided in for a crash landing. Men on the deck could see the bomber's crew, see that all but the pilot were dead. A gunner sent a burst into the bomber. It fell away, clipped one of the carrier planes, crashed into...
...Beware of the Hun in the Sun," to go into a spin when bullets started appearing along his port wing. "There is an appalling tendency," he remarks, "to sit and watch this happen without taking any action, as though mesmerized by a snake." That time he got away, to crash-land safely "in the back garden of a Brigade cocktail party." When, a few days later, crewmen of the Margate lifeboat dragged Hillary, comatose, out of the North Sea, they rushed him ashore to have his burnt flesh caked with protective tannic acid, his eyes with a coating of gentian...
Complete except for the crash of bombs and the whine of dive-bombers, the University had its first taste of total war last night as twelve entries of Eliot House joined in a practice blackout...
Dudley's Ramblers had little trouble with the hapless Deacons of Kirkland. With Gormly, Whittaker and MacDonald each, scoring twice, the commuters submerged the losers deeper in the League's cellar. Kirkland's sextet has yet to crash the win column...