Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quiet & the Dead. In the instant of the crash, 13 persons were dead. Among them: Colonel Smith, his crew chief Staff Sergeant Christopher Domitrovich, and Albert Perna, a Navy bluejacket who had hitchhiked a ride from New Bedford. Most of the others were girls and women employed by the National Catholic Welfare Conference, which has offices on the 79th floor. Many were burned beyond recognition. The body of a man who worked on that floor was found on a ledge of the 72nd floor; apparently he had been blown out a window...
...been dropped in an elevator was dug out alive (automatic devices had braked the fall). Rescuers battered a hole through the wreckage and Donald Malony, 17, a Coast Guard hospital apprentice, squeezed through it, brought her out, gave her morphine. Passing the building at the moment of the crash, he had run into a drug store, talked a clerk into giving him hypodermic needles, drugs, other supplies. He gave first aid to many...
...York had been spared worse. The crash came on a summer Saturday; in the building were only about 1,500 people. On a normal week day there would have been 15,000 office workers, perhaps several thousand visitors...
...pilots from the waters around enemy-held islands in the Solomons. By late 1943 every downed U.S. carrier pilot, no matter how deep in enemy waters, began to count on an increasing chance of rescue. Pilots who were unable to return to their bases always knew where a crash landing or a parachute jump could be made with some hope. Float planes were used where submarines could not go-as in the Truk lagoon early last year, when seven pilots were taxied out by one plane. In Ormoc Bay last year five PBY Dumbos saved 142 men from a torpedoed...
...Songstress Jane Froman, brunette favorite of G.I.s. Since she was injured on her first tour, in the 1943 Lisbon Clipper crash, she has had 18 operations, is "finishing the job" on crutches. ¶ Comedians Jack Benny and Bob Hope, and Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, accompanied by full companies of stooges and satellites...