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...Lulworth Hill, a freighter bound home for England via Cape Town after delivering a cargo of bombs and aircraft engines to Alexandria, was torpedoed by a German submarine on March 19, 1943, off the west coast of central Africa. The ship's first officer and 13 crewmen reached life rafts. Fifty days later, when a British destroyer steamed into view, two men still lived. One survivor died shortly after the rescue. The remaining man, who was the ship's carpenter, tells the story...
...dawned that Song's army was not going to hurt them. By the time the 7 p.m. curfew hour came, the crowd had swelled to monster proportions. Suddenly, some of the bolder demonstrators clambered onto passing tanks shouting: "Long live our soldiers." Doffing their helmets, the young tank crewmen joined the crowd in tribute to the students killed in earlier rioting by singing a Korean war song that begins...
Early on the morning of Feb. 9, Sargo's sophisticated SINS (for Ship's Inertial Navigation System) picked out the Pole. Up poked the sub's massive sail, i.e., superstructure, lifting with it a three-foot layer of ice. Crewmen axed through the ice, climbed down a ladder, found by celestial navigation check that they had scored a bull's-eye-the Pole was only 25 yards away. Electronics Technician Second Class Harold ("Pineapple") Meyer marched to the Pole, planted a candy-striped pole on the spot, and hoisted the state flag of Hawaii. While other...
News from Home. Their temporary home is a "molehole" adjacent to the Christmas Tree. It is a square, white (for thermal reflection) concrete structure entered through green corrugated steel tubes. It is partially blastproof (most of the 72 duty flight and ground crewmen live in the underground section) and completely soundproof. The area is guarded at the barbed-wire fences by police dogs and armed sentries. The guards even have a secret code-by voice or glance-to cover the possibility that an airman might enter in the company of a saboteur who has an unseen...
...Bravo . . ." (The radio reminds Bulli to secure his brakes so that his plane will not roll when he starts his engines.) Bulli flicked on his engine switches. No. 3 fired up, then No. 4; he gangbarred the other six simultaneously. In 45 seconds, all eight fires were roaring. Outside, crewmen hustled around disconnecting external power units. At exactly 11:04-four minutes after the klaxon-Bulli was ready for taxiing. If command post should signal a Coco alert, Bulli would start rolling for the runway. A call of Juliet or Romeo would send him into...