Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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At 1005 on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, the 33,000-ton battleship West Virginia sank in Pearl Harbor's waters, victim of half a dozen Japanese torpedoes. The attack had come so suddenly, the great ship was crippled so quickly, that 66 crewmen were caught below deck and went...
The salvagers had found "evidences that some of the men had lived for consider able periods and finally succumbed due to lack of oxygen." The three seamen, names unknown, had been trapped in a storeroom in the forward section of the ship, starboard side. With all power destroyed, they had...
At first glance, the two bombs appeared to be nothing special. One looked like a blunt-nosed torpedo; the other had the shape of a bulky, overweight blimp. So why, until last week, had the State Department suppressed all pictures of them for 15 secretive years?
The answer becomes understandable when the two fin-tailed monsters are identified. They were the first operational A-bombs ever built. "Little Boy," the slimmer of the two, was a duplicate of the 10-ft.-long, 9,000-lb. bomb that decimated Hiroshima. The 10,000-lb., spheroid "Fat Man...
Whatever tragedy the sight of Little Boy and Fat Man recalled, it was less personal than the recurrent horror that still afflicts former Army Air Corps Major Claude Eatherly, pilot of the reconnaissance plane that fingered Hiroshima for A-bomb attack. It was Eatherly. looking down from his 6-29...