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...kept alongside, and tried to suggest different stunts to put out the fire. Step out to the right or to the left. Dive. Pick up speed to put out the flame. But nothing seemed, to work...
...watched from the bridge of a transport, one Hellcat, strafing from 700 feet, caught a burst of flak. The plane burst into flame and plummeted into the water. The fire was extin uished as quickly as"'the life of the pilot...
...grove and town" were uniformed students and other signs of war. Civilian enrollment, at 135, was down 75%. A quarter of the faculty of 65 was away on war leave. But Bowdoin was struggling, in the words of President Kenneth Charles Morton ("Casey") Sills, to keep "the flame of liberal education . . . ready for the day when it shall again become a beacon light...
Nevertheless, the British took the Nazis' open attack on their morale with war-tempered resignation. One daytime robot rumbled over a cricket pitch, trailing a 30-ft. lash of flame, and exploded in a nearby field. The game went on. A milkman told a customer that one of the things had hit near his place the night before, then added: "Blew a hole in a field. That won't do much good, will...
...pockets began to go off. Part of the wounded man's load was TNT. Before this human bomb could explode, his mates behind him pushed him out. The last they saw of him, his parachute had opened and he was drifting to earth in a shroud of bursting flame. Some of the airborne divisions were identified: the U.S. 82nd, tough veterans of Sicily and Salerno; the U.S. 101st, in its first battle; the British 6th. They captured gun positions, pillboxes, road junctions, destroyed bridges. Some of them made contact later with ground troops. Some of them, the Germans claimed...