Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thunder in the Street. In Manhattan, a few minutes before 10 a.m., workers in the midtown towers heard a plane close by - very close. It thundered past the stark, stone structures of Rockefeller Center. On the streets below, pedestrians startled by the low-flying craft looked up, saw Old John Feather Merchant barely miss a 60-floor building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Then the craft, southbound, pulled up into the cloud...
...Conn., and Hunter Field (near Savannah), Ga., as many as 100 aircraft turned up in a single flight. Proudly the A.A.F. pointed to its safety record: only three bombers had been lost; not one life had been lost in the A.T.C.'s transporting of 67,200 troops. Naval craft of three nations (U.S., Britain and Brazil) patrolled the three routes (via Iceland and Newfoundland; via the Azores; via Natal, Brazil, and the Caribbean). They were a chain of beacons, supplying weather data to the homing aircraft. Ashore, long range planes stood by for rescue missions...
...blustery dawn onto the airfields around Tokyo. In the bad weather, the aviators had poor hunting. The Americans, on the southern flank of the attack, could find only nine seaplanes, all sitting ducks, of which four were burned and five damaged. They also smashed two hangars, sank three small craft and damaged ten others. The British, farther north, destroyed a hangar and 13 planes. Both groups shot up locomotives and hit factories and barracks...
...burning descents down the dangling cables. A man grabbed a rope and poised to shove off, let go when two women leaped on his back. The three plunged into the river together. Up to the Hamonic rushed a flotilla of motorboats, rowboats and canoes, led by U.S. Coast Guard craft. The boatmen snatched up those who could not swim ashore...
Among other things, war is a craft, and G.I. Joe does an excellent job of explaining it. Its action includes some of the most lucid pictures ever filmed of infantrymen at work. The actors, many of them combat veterans, perform their jobs with competence and beautiful attention to detail. One sequence, in which two soldiers, covering and acting as decoys for each other, outwit three German snipers in a church belfry, is as satisfying as a cleanly executed triple play...