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...nearly half an hour the battle raged, two raiders against one freighter. Heavily outgunned, the merchantman made every shell count. Ensign Willett saw the stern of the smaller raider burst into flame. Then a shell blew up the merchantman's main boiler, reduced her speed to one knot. A few seconds later another shell hit the magazine...
Legion of Merit (newest U.S. medal). Navy, 20; Allies, 2. Sample-case: Water Tender Leo M. Savage, who "immediately after the explosion [aboard the torpedoed destroyer Blakeley'] secured the boiler fires . . . shifted fuel oil ... relighted fires . . . contributed to the absence of panic...
...England, a Focke-Wulf dived and gunned a locomotive, whose boiler exploded, bagged the raider...
...gargantuan a wartime phenomenon as the West Coast shipyards is their union: the alphabetically unpronounceable International Brotherhood of Boiler Makers, Iron Ship Builders, Welders & Helpers of America. Almost overnight World War II has made it one of the largest, probably the richest, certainly the most glamorous union en the war-busy West Coast...
Meanwhile the streets around the factory were quickly transformed. Everything that the Russians could lay hands on was used-boiler plates, shells of tanks, barrels, bricks, sandbags. Wives brought bullets to husbands while girls from workshops served as nurses. Many perished that day, but for that price the river line was held until regular reinforcements could be brought...