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Word: abovedeck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superstructure is bent and twisted. Stack and masts are gone. Abovedeck quarters are oil-blackened ruins. Ranges in the crew's galley are thick with rust. The once-elaborate captain's cabin is a mess of shattered furniture, moldering linoleum. The cork-lined deckhead is caving in. ... The wooden deck is pocked with the borings of teredos (shipworms). . . . From her opened hatches comes the nauseating odor of gases. Inside her foul carcass are rotting vegetables, meats, ship's supplies, human bodies. ... In the horrible, blackened wreckage of the crew's quarters you can still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Pearl Harbor, 18 Months After | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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