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...through the flames along the flying bridge and come aft." In launching, the lifeboat turned over, and Kelly and his shipmates hid under it when the sub cut loose with deck guns. When things quieted down, they clambered up on the bottom of the boat and waited for dawn...
...From dawn to dusk his bombers went over in flights of from three to 54. Mostly they left their cards at Corregidor, home address of Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and keystone of the U.S. structure of resistance...
...before. But the Dutchman's face lit up like the South Seas' full moon. He took only 20 minutes' instructions, and then said he was ready to have the gasoline tanks and bomb bays filled because it was getting late and he had a date at dawn with some Jap transports. He took off to the north, leaving only an exhaust stream visible against the starry sky. I know he isn't alive now, but I'll bet he caused a lot of damage before he went down. He died happy. God rest his immortal...
Wake. The task force crept up before dawn on Feb. 24. Before the sun had burst up out of the sea behind low-hanging clouds, the planes were launched, the force advanced, deployed, put into action. The Jap was caught snoozing...
Marcus. The task force sailed west and north. At dawn, eight days later, it stood off Marcus Island. Well down behind the horizon, the task force launched its planes and headed for home. The men on the ships had to follow the action by listening to the U.S. planes' radio. The Jap put up no fight, except from his antiaircraft, launched not a single plane. Marcus, important as a Jap supply base and link between Japan and the Mandates, got a pounding that should take weeks to repair...