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...battleship captain* had his stomach laid open by a shrapnel burst as he went from conning tower to bridge to direct his ship's fight. He fell to the deck, disdained attempts to lift him to safety, continued to command until the bridge went up in flames. Two officers attempting to save him were themselves saved only after a third officer climbed above the fire, passed a line to an adjoining battleship, another to the trapped men, thus led them to safety...
...which time the sea was brilliantly sunlit, nine Japanese planes were sighted at 10,000 feet. They flew in single file along the length of the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Repulse. A bomb hit the catapult deck and exploded in the hangar, setting a fire below decks. The Repulse's planes, instead of being out on reconnaissance, were in hangar...
...torpedo struck the side on which I was standing, about twenty yards astern of my position. It felt like the ship had crashed into a well-rooted dock. It threw me four feet across the deck, but I did not fall, and I did not feel any explosion-just this very great...
...carriers is not known: estimates vary between eight and 13. Japanese carriers are small, with space for from 24 to 60 planes, compared with U.S. carriers' 80 to 100. They are fast, running to 30 knots. And they are daringly designed, with no island above the flight deck and funnels aimed astern like huge exhaust pipes...
Manila communicates with California directly by R.C.A. and A.T. & T. radiotelephone (a point-to-point system employing short waves outside the broadcast band). On deck in Manila for CBS were Tom Worthin and Ford Wilkins, for NBC local radioman Bert Silen, for Mutual Royal Arch Gunnison of North America Newspaper Alliance. Burly Bert Silen had assured NBC in Manhattan that he could "broadcast any time, even during actual bombing...