Word: crew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows how many hundreds of her crew bobbed in the ocean the next morning. Three life rafts and a floater net supported a few. The rest drifted about, held up by rubber life belts or Mae Wests. By mid-afternoon all were blind from the tropical sun, and after dark they shook with cold. About 60 died that night. Their life jackets were ripped off for the living...
Last week the Navy Department announced the Indianapolis' sinking, ordered an inquiry into what some called a colossal blunder. Of the 1,196-man crew, every last Jack was a casualty; 880 were listed dead or missing. Not since the Juneau was sunk by torpedoes in the Solomons (684 dead, four survivors) had the U.S. Navy suffered such a disaster...
...given Corwin the green light for a sustaining summer series. Furthermore, instead of a late-night spot to which such worthy projects are usually relegated, CBS assigned Corwin to the desirable Tuesday 9-9:30 p.m. time. Corwin corrailed a crew of Hollywood professionals (Groucho Marx, Keenan Wynn, Sylvia Sidney, Ronald Colman) and labored mightily on his favorite stock in trade: the supremacy of the common man. But this time all he brought forth were tired platitudes, well-worn dramatic tricks, cacophonic sound effects. Corwin's Hooper rating dropped to the lowest of all big-time evening shows...
...seemed interested in everything the ship's crew did. Standing at the rail one sunny morning, he watched the ship's company solve a battle problem, intrigued by the smoke bombs. He told the enlisted men first about the atomic bomb-casually, as if chatting with old old friends, at chow...
...pilot, took back the controls and ten pairs of eyes strained at the plexiglass windows as Tibbets turned the plane broadside to Hiroshima. It took less than 60 seconds. Then the brilliant morning sunlight was slashed by a more brilliant white flash. It was so strong that the crew of the Superfortress Enola Gay felt a "visual shock," although all wore sun glasses...