Word: chute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bailed out about 6:30 at about 13.000. Nite in chute in rain. Uninjured...
...following after us were loaded with demolition bombs. Tex's P-40 fighters were carrying fragmentation bombs. We started to step into the planes, but the rear gunner discovered his parachute was missing. "I'm not going to set foot in that plane unless I have a chute. I've made three emergency jumps and I'm going to have a chute or I am not going." We found him a parachute, stepped into the plane and were soon roaring off toward the Yangtze River and Kiukiang...
Good Luck. But ordinary escapades no longer bear relating. An Air Corps lieutenant still flies whose chute failed to open at two hundred feet until his plane exploding just beneath him sent up a great blast of gas and flame-enough to blow the chute open, but not quite enough to set it afire, though the inside of it was blackened like cork. Another lieutenant swimming down a river had to fight his way through crocodiles, slashing at them with his heavy jungle knife. He escaped with a couple of nasty tooth marks in his shoulders...
...Union at Missionary Ridge, who was the last military governor of the Philippines. There are flashes of young Douglas hurrying every day to meet his mother on West Point's Flirtation Walk or being helped by her to escape from the West Point hotel through a coal chute when he was caught out of bounds. There is MacArthur commanding the Rainbow Division in 1917, leading attacks in person. There is MacArthur in Washington obeying orders by clearing out the Bonus Marchers, but dropping in on their camp of an evening to swap talk with his old Rainbow...
...Axis sub crippled a rickety, old armed U.S. freighter, loosed a parachute flare to illuminate the scene. A contrary wind caught the chute, pushed it back over the sub, shed sufficient light for a carrot-topped Navy gunner on the ship to pound three shells into its conning tower. Survivors insisted that the raider went down with all hands...