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...minutes of the deadliest close-range fighting, the Boise had fired more than 1,000 rounds of five-and six-inch shells. Her sister ships had given her up for lost, but two hours later-her exploded magazine flooded, her bulkhead shored up, her shell holes stuffed with bedding-she ghosted into her regular station in column. "She was down by the head, but on an even keel...
...test case of his theory. On the Malolo's trial run, 26 miles off Nantucket, another Norwegian freighter appeared out of the fog and, as the fascinated Mr. Gibbs watched, crashed into the Malolo amidship. Into the pilothouse rushed Gibbs. He pushed the buttons to operate the sliding bulkhead doors, which should close off the shattered compartment and keep the sea from flooding and sinking the Malolo. Down into the hold he plunged. Green water was pouring in. He waded to the bulkhead door. It was still open. As he got there it began to close. It shut tight...
...chief engineer and what was left of his crew at once began "repairing flooded fuel lines and working down there in the dark and danger." They put out an electrical fire, bolstered a buckling bulkhead...
...that awaited him-sat still, calm, relaxed, happy; his hair slicked back, black doughnut circles gone from his eyes. He wore loose grey tweeds, a light blue shirt, striped blue-on-blue tie, gold collar pin. Sallow Harry Hopkins sat near by against the wardroom's green-grey bulkhead, eyes narrowed watchfully except when he twitched a smile at a face he knew. From the table's green felt top the President picked a Camel, lit it, stuffed it with his thick awkward fingers into his ivory holder. He hadn't any news, he said...
...firing speed with the big gun. . . . We might get up as high as 30 a minute." Any such rate of fire would take some doing. Two men load and fire the 75. The loader has to kneel in a tiny steel coop. Between the breech and a bulkhead, he has about three feet in which to work. When the gun recoils, he has something less than two feet. At 30 rounds a minute, the loader must, every two seconds, extract a 75-mm. shell casing from a semiautomatic breech, allow a split second for the gases to be blown...