Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whaleboats & Logs. The diesels of the U-505 were still running, and the boat was moving in a tight, righthand circle when Lieut, (j.g.) Albert David and eight crewmen from the destroyer Pillsbury jumped aboard, minutes after the last live German had left (the body of one Nazi, the only fatality in the whole operation, was found aboard the U-boat). Racing below, the boarders shut the seacocks, stopped the engines and searched for booby traps. That evening the U-5O5 -rechristened Can Do, Jr.-rode at the end of a towline behind the Guadalcanal...
...shot down a British airliner (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Britain's officials in Hong Kong characteristically blacked out all news of the attack. As a result, for a full day newspapers all over the world reported only that a British plane had crashed in the China Sea. AIRLINER, 17 ABOARD, DOWN OFF RED CHINA, headlined the New York Times in a small story on page two. The London Daily Express, whose Hong Kong correspondent saw the plane in the water, reported flatly: "Suggestions that the Skymaster was shot down [are backed up by] no evidence . . . whatsoever...
...last week the "Baboon" was safe in port in Norfolk, with Canipe, his 18-year-old son, Mack, and his father, a retired grocer, aboard. Until the damage is appraised, Canipe will not know how much he will realize from his prize. But he has a reasonable expectation of making at least $100,000 above the money (upwards of $40,000) that it cost him to salvage the Babun...
...French, the Communists gave them haircuts, bars of soap and a meal of pork and chicken. When the French navy put in at Haithuon to take the prisoners away, Viet Minh nurses were conspicuously serving them tea. But the French rescuers still had to carry most of the prisoners aboard the LSM in stretchers, and the prisoners who were well enough tore almost ravenously into a good French meal. When they had finished, some heroes of the great battle came back to the galleys with hands outstretched, pleading for more. One legionnaire carefully stored his bread crumbs in a cellophane...
Boeing took its new plane to demonstrate to Army Air Corps brass at Wright Field in Dayton. With an Army pilot in the cockpit, and Boeing's Chief Test Pilot Leslie Tower aboard, Boeing's 6-17 took off. But the pilot was unaware that the tail surfaces had a lock to keep them from being buffeted by the wind when on the ground. With the controls locked, the plane took off, lurched over on one wing, crashed and burned. Both Tower and the Army flyer were killed. Boeing collected $350,000 in insurance, but Douglas, with...