Word: chute
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...creeping details of other crimes from Germany's own cancerous camps. Examples: ¶ For breaches of discipline at Buchenwald prisoners were dispatched in wholesale lots. They were marched into an incinerator and there converted into bone-ash in four fast, efficient stages: 1) pushed down a 13-ft. chute to a strangling room; 2) garrotted by SS guards with a short double-end noose; 3) hung on hooks along a side wall (those who still struggled on the hooks were stunned with wooden mallets); 4) carted to the furnaces, 18 at a time, by incineration crews. The cremation capacity...
...that was just the beginning. On D-day Walton went in with the paratroopers long before dawn, flung himself out of the plane door at such low altitude that "there was only a moment to look around in the moonlight as my chute opened. I landed in a pear tree, which was a good shock absorber, but I didn't filter through to the ground; instead I dangled helplessly about three feet above ground, a perfect target for the snipers I could hear not far away...
...Bradley briefed war correspondents and made them a promise. His pledge: give him three hours of good flying weather any forenoon and he would break out of Normandy. The pent power of his U.S. forces back of Saint-Lô, like a gigantic rocket, would be loosed into the chute carved by a 2,000-plane air bombardment. After the breakthrough-the General made no promises...
Omar Bradley got his good weather on July 25 and touched off his rocket. It swooshed through the chute, burst out of Normandy, burned a path to Avranches and the north corner of the Breton peninsula...
...That hit us all pretty hard. About all I could say was 'Okay, Big Friend. Lots of luck to you all.' Then the pilot's own chute opened just before the bomber flipped over her wing and went streaming down in flame...