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...prior to scheduled takeoff. On take-off day, other crews run through the three-hour preflight checks on the alert bomber to lessen the fatigue of the crew going on duty. Take-offs are scheduled for around 10 a.m. to allow for a full night's sleep. (The crewmen's physical condition is attested by the fact that they must be able to run a reasonably fast 250-yd. dash and perform five chin-ups and 33 sit-ups.) The planes carried an extra pilot on the first alert flights because flight surgeons were fearful that fatigued pilots...
...liner, carrying 950 passengers and crewmen, was seized as a protest against the Portuguese dictatorship of Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, according to a message radioed by Galvao to newspapers all over the world. It was "a political action foreseen in the international maritime laws," Galvao declared. This is his fourth attempt to overthrow Premier Salazar's government...
...Constellation, scheduled to be a battle cruiser, was scrapped after her keel was laid, as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922. * On March 19, 1945, in the Inland Sea, the flag carrier Franklin was hit by two Japanese bombs, engulfed in flames and explosions. But the crewmen extinguished the fires in five hours, and the ship-in World War II the most severely damaged carrier to be saved-limped 12,000 miles back to New York, with 724 of her crewmen dead or missing, 265 wounded...
...Brooklyn a man looked up and saw "a large bolt of lightning." In a house on Staten Island, across the Narrows from Brooklyn, a housewife heard a noise that sounded like a "thousand dishes crashing from the sky." As she watched, the TWA Connie, carrying 44 passengers and crewmen, crashed to earth near by. Seconds later, a broken and torn DC-8 jet, which had been United Air Lines' proud Flight 826, bound for Idlewild from Chicago with 84 people, fell out of the sky into Brooklyn...
...Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, the 33,000-ton battleship West Virginia sank in Pearl Harbor's waters, victim of half a dozen Japanese torpedoes. The attack had come so suddenly, the great ship was crippled so quickly, that 66 crewmen were caught below deck and went down with the West Virginia. Last week, 19 years after the disaster at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy finally released a harrowing report on the ordeal of three sailors who were aboard the West Virginia...