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...About this time the bombardier let loose his load on Kiel. It wasn't too soon because both the bombardier and navigator were hit a moment later. When the ball-turret gunner came up to help, we lifted Steve out of his seat and laid him along the catwalk above the bomb bays and covered him with flying clothes. We had been handing the captain 'walk-around' oxygen bottles after the regular system got busted. Now we gave him Steve's tube. We saw that Steve didn't need it any more...
After noon the stubborn ones came again -24 dive-bombers and torpedo planes. This time at least one attacker made good. He dropped a 500-pounder on one of the forward turrets. Captain Gatch, who was standing on the bridge's exposed catwalk, took a fragment of bomb in his neck. An artery was cut. His shoulder was torn. He was knocked out. But his ship got through...
...little fire back here.' I looked back. Smoke was pouring from the waist-gun ports. The bombardier-Lieut. Emmett W. Ford of Siloam Springs, Ark.-and navigator-Lieut. Jacob C. Shively of Indianapolis-headed aft to help. They were on the catwalk in the bomb bay when a shell plowed in and exploded alongside them. It blew the navigator down on to the bomb doors. It was good luck they didn't open. He had no chute...
...makes his own breakfast and gets to his office about 5:20. By 8 a.m. he has whisked through the Associated Press copy and typed out three solid columns of editorials. At 8:10 he holds an editorial conference; at 8:25 he walks downstairs, across a catwalk on the second-story roof and into the broadcasting studio of WRNL. Half of Richmond is giving ear when the Doctor goes on the air at 8:30 with his morning news and homily. The station people are awed by his ability to spin out a steady, mellifluous 15-minute newscast without...
Buick has low, spread-eagled, "catwalk-cooling"' radiator grilles, a distinctive narrow nose. Down in price from $16 to $102, the four straight-eight series of Buicks now cost $996 to $2,074. Standard on all models this year is the handi-shift gear control; optional on some are sunshine tops, stream boards...