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...dawn the ship rolled and tumbled like a half-submerged log, the red paint on her bottom plainly visible. But she floated. And out beyond her, half hidden by the smoking seas, lay a wallowing covey of rescue ships: the U.S. freighters Southland and War hawk, U.S. military transport General A. W. Greely, the Norwegian tanker H. Westfal-Larsen, the German steamship Arion, the British steamship Sherborne...
...master of the transport Greely, eyeing the Flying Enterprise through flying spume, was appalled, even though four of her five holds were still tight. "I believed that what watertight integrity she possessed would collapse," he said, "sinking her immediately." The vessel's owners urged Carlsen by radio against "further risking your life." When the message was relayed, a new storm was smashing the ship, but he replied: "I am remaining till vessel saved or sunk...
...early years fitted him for the Communist aristocracy-a poor childhood, the Czar's army at 18, underground intrigue with secret printing presses, a term in prison, escape. In exile, he became boss of the party's international "transport," which is Communist doubletalk for the smuggling of arms, money and secret communications. "As long as Papasha is there," Lenin remarked admiringly one day in 1904, "we shall have transport...
...marines were none too sure that they would get out of China themselves. But they packed the bones with their own gear, shipped everything on the Manchurian railway and planned to meet an American transport at the coastal town of Chinwangtao. A hospital corpsman was designated as escort for the bones, but the escort missed the train. A few days later marines, train, and transport were all in Japanese hands...
...questions concentrated on the equipment in their plane, especially the six parachutes for a crew of four and a portable "Gibson Girl" radio for sending SOS signals if forced down on water. The Reds seemed unable to believe that the "Gibson Girl" is standard emergency equipment in U.S. transport aircraft, and that extra chutes are frequently carried...