Word: decking
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...down his newspaper and started thinking about this suicide business. According to some reporter the Jap pilots were diving their airplanes onto the deck of our boats like human bombs. Just as they had used those human dynamite charges at Shanghai to break up Chinese barbed wire. Vag shuddered. He tried to imagine himself as the pilot of a bomber, poised high above a sleek, tall ship of war carrying the white banner with the orange sun. He could imagine himself trying to force his muscles to shove the stick forward and aim himself in the fatal dive. Somehow...
...could see his squadrons' bombs falling, some near the ship, some a good distance away. One loaded plane hitting its deck would have infinitely more effect. Might sink the thing; certainly would make for a bit of confusion down there. He saw one bomb hit the foredeck; he couldn't tell, but it seemed to have caused a good deal of wreckage. Now if a whole plane-load...
...From the deck of a ship entering the harbor, Willemstadt in Curaçao looks like a toy Dutch town, its well-scrubbed houses bright in the vivid tropic sunlight. To 79 men, women and children hanging over the rails of the Spanish liner Cabo de Hornos last week, Curaçao seemed very beautiful. It looked like heaven to them, for they had been on a long voyage through hell...
...loudspeakers barked: "Everybody to the port side. . . . Prepare to abandon ship." But at the boat stations on the weather deck it was obvious that the motor lifeboats could never be launched because of the heavy list. A destroyer worked up under the overhanging lee deck. Ropes shot up and were made fast. The men, some in overalls, some in underwear, slid down like monkeys to the destroyer's fo'c'sle deck...
...many hours later the men of the Ark learned that the big girl, top-heavy with her thick deck armor, had rolled over on her back, lifted herself a bit by the stern, like some great animal making a last stab at survival, then plunged. The men were heartbroken, not over the fact, inconsequential to most of them, that Britain's third carrier loss* left the Royal Navy only nine of these invaluable craft, but simply because their invulnerable, incomparable Ark was gone...