Word: bunkerism
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...Gave the nation's thanks and Presidential citations for "extraordinary heroism" to the men of eight aircraft carriers - the Belleau Wood, Bunker Hill, Cabot, Essex, Hornet, Lexington, San Jacinto and Yorktown...
During the war, he served on the carrier Bunker Hill in the Pacific. Later, as a lieutenant commander, he trained other officers in air-combat intelligence at the Navy's prep school on Rhode Island's Quonset Point. He decided that they caught on fast because their work had purpose. Says he: "I don't believe in teaching any course just crammed full of inert material...
Philip H. Bunker...
...Bunker Voice. As the end drew near, Bormann's voice came over . the radio from Hitler's bunker in Berlin, broadcasting orders and proclamations. When the Russians reached the bunker, Bormann was gone. Some Nazis claimed that he had died leading a last effort to break free...
Ships are struck-the Nevada, the Bunker Hill-and you see the massive helplessness of power and number before one midge to whom life has ceased to have meaning. A midge dives and misses, by a matter of yards, of feet, and sprouts its fierce little explosion of utterly useless death. In his last seconds of life what must be in the mind of the Kamikaze flyer who succeeds or of the flyer who fails? Flak, a great storm of it, for what seems like minutes in a continuous shot, searches after a retreating plane, and at last connects...