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...German tanks were skillfully handled. Lingering in hull-down position on the back of one slope, they would fire for a time. Then, moving in different diagonal directions, they would race over the top of the slope and come down and halfway up the next slope, again in hull-down position...
What to wear is usually settled by circumstances: you wear what you have on. If caught undressed, grab a shirt and pants anyway. Clothing saves skin on the trip down a rope or a rough hull. To save the hands ("principal tools of salvation") Chambliss recommends carrying a pair of light leather gloves in the hip pocket at all times. A knife is a necessity. So is a pencil flashlight, easily carried in a shirt pocket, best kept dry in a knotted rubber sheath ("a bit inelegant, but elegance has no place in abandoning ship...
...White House dinner for General Giraud on the night of the invasion of Sicily (at which, among nonmilitary guests, was Secretary of State Cordell Hull), Franklin Roosevelt raised his glass in a toast to a liberated France, adding: "It is a very great symbol that General Giraud is here tonight. . . ." Yet it seemed to Frenchmen-both Giraudists and Gaullists alike-that the tanned five-star general, who has no stomach for politics, was a virtual prisoner in the U.S., his words censored, his movements circumscribed, his visits outside Washington mysterious...
...does not char, chip or crack, can be cut or tack-welded like uncoated metal, and actually strengthens light steel sheets to which it is applied-a quality which may make it possible to build lighter ships. Whether Seaporcel can be used on a ship's hull is still a moot question; the Navy is testing to see whether barnacles will grow...
...months the great, grey Normandie lay in the mud at the end of Manhattan's 48th Street, a spectacle for tourists. Lights burned along her hull at night...