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With a roar and a burst of flame his sleek P39 crashed among the houses of Hempstead (pop: 21,000), south of the air base. Mothers' cries, neighbors' shouts told the incoherent rest of the story of one of the saddest crashes in history. The P39 had fallen near three children at play, doused them with flaming gasoline. That day they died...
...getting fascistically tougher than ever. It was the first anniversary of Marshal Pétain's French Legion-veterans of two wars who support the Marshal. For three days there was Nazi-style mummery. By foot and airplane some 20,000 Legionnaires carried torches, lit from the eternal flame at the Unknown Soldier's tomb in Paris, to many parts of Vichyfrance and the Empire. Finally, in Vichy's stadium Marshal Pétain addressed tens of thousands of Legionnaires. There he pronounced them the one and only political party in France-his own counterpart...
...touch of a button her blond, urbane skipper, Captain Olaf Mandt Hustvedt, gave her the works. Her answer was a belching, searing flame, the shattering roar of the heaviest broadside ever fired by any warship of any Navy on any sea. All nine of the 16-in. guns in her main battery, tripled in turrets each of which weighs more than many a destroyer, answered the Old Man. Ten of her secondary battery of 20 five-inchers simultaneously blasted the night. North Carolina took it as it came, shook her head and plowed...
From North Carolina's port side burst a flaming earthquake-a roar that shattered its way to the marrow of man, a lurid flame that seemed to lick the water for hundreds of yards and lift itself above the ranging top of the foremast. The deck slid to starboard, oscillated to port, leveled off handily, rode steady again...
...strong, and that of poetry was stronger. Before he left he had his photograph made (see cut) and gave one to each of his friends. He also got rid of most of his manuscripts. "These, when torn up, filled a large bucket, weighed astonishingly, and burned with a clear flame...