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Seamen's finding: the Don, foul with her own gasoline, and carrying extra tins on deck, blew...
...time Jax turns a fledgling loose in a "yellow peril" (primary trainer), the Navy has fashioned him into the rough framework of a seagoing man. He says "Knock off the chatter" when he means shut up, "shove off" when he means leave, calls the floor "the deck," tells you to "bear a hand" instead of hurry up, describes things as "squared away" when they are in order. From 5 a.m. reveille to 9 p.m. taps, he takes orders and gets little thanks. He learns not to resent the peremptory nature of commands, comes to see that brusqueness and military efficiency...
...depth and pressure (almost 200 Ib. per square inch) the old O-9 must have folded, bow to stern, like an accordion. Oil slicked the surface. Cork, from the O-9's inner walls, bobbed up into the glare of searchlights. Pieces of the O-9's deck gratings, flakes of paint appeared. In the press room at the Portsmouth base, a Navy veteran said: "Boys, that...
...morning of June 6, when the Monterey entered the sunny harbor of Papeete, Tahiti, General Brunot appeared on deck in the blue uniform of France. An antiquated French airplane droned over the ship and dipped its wings. At the dock Joan Fontaine saw General Brunot received by two khaki-clad companies of native troops. A band broke the tropic stillness with the Marseillaise and Joan Fontaine, thinking of the France that was, could not help crying...
...directly abeam, less than 100 yards away, rose up in two or three crackling columns and subsided. There was another salvo, after which the ship shook and trembled, and I heard a tearing, rending noise. I crossed over to the port side, and the moment I stepped out on deck I saw the German raider. She was broadside on, so close I could count her bridge decks. . . . Even as I looked several long red flashes spurted forward and abaft the funnel, and as I raced back to the cabin the passageway behind me heaved and filled with smoke...