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...next April. U.S. Air Force Colonel Harold Fulmer, flying the first American planes and equipment (mostly desks) from the 27-year-old French airbase of Evreux to the new NATO station at Mildenhall, England, said simply: "We hate to go." Actually, Fulmer did not go. He and his crewmen flew back from England to spend the July 4th weekend with their families in France...
...Verne trawling capsules imported by the Navy's 18-ship, 2,200-man recovery task force under "Wild Bill" Guest, 52. Among the most sophisticated hardware in his far-out fleet were the civilian-manned, deep-diving research subs Aluminaut and Alvin. It was Alvin's two crewmen who first found the wayward nuke last month, wrapped in its grey parachute 2,500 ft. down on a 70° slope. But Alvin proved a ham-handed retriever. On its first try at getting a line around the bomb, the sub booted the bomb 20 ft. down the slope...
...many ways, the fire that swept the 16-year-old Norwegian vessel resembled that aboard the Yarmouth Castle, the Panamanian-registered cruise ship on which 90 people-mostly passengers-died last November. In both cases the vessels were plying well-traveled Caribbean channels and carrying about 500 passengers and crewmen beneath idyllic, moonlit skies. As foreign ships, neither conformed fully to American safety standards. Each of the fires occurred in the early-morning hours, when only a few revelers lingered on deck...
Aboard the Princess, a muffled explosion was followed by billowing smoke from the engine room, where efforts to douse the flames proved useless. Under Thoresen's direction, crewmen calmly roused passengers from bed, outfitted them with life jackets and supervised their evacuation, women and children first. The ship's steel lifeboats, with a total capacity of 874, were lowered in minutes. While crewmen remained behind to search all cabins, nearby freighters picked up the passengers to transport them to the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo...
...passengers died of heart attacks, but all 494 others aboard (including 246 crewmen) survived. The last to leave his vessel was Captain Thoresen, murmuring "I lost a good friend in that ship." When he arrived at Guantánamo, his waiting passengers, many of them still in pajamas, greeted him with round after round of cheers. Not one of them had even...