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...Iron Cooling . . ." Crewman Sanjiro Masuda, 29, one of the most seriously injured, told what had happened. On the morning of March i, the Fortunate Dragon rode at anchor 71 miles east of Bikini, and well outside the announced danger limits of the U.S. atomic proving grounds. Masuda and seven of his mates were pulling in the nets when the explosion went off. Said Masuda: "We saw strange sparkles and flashes of fire, sparks and fire as bright as the sun itself. The sky around them glowed fiery red and yellow. The glow went on for several minutes-perhaps...
...when he hit. In a split second, the plane roared through the trees above him. slammed into the ground 50 yards away (killing an eight-point, 150-lb. buck), and began to burn. Sergeant Arrington stood up, bruised but alive, ran into the fire and pulled out a dying crewman...
...Orleans, Eugene Walet talked his father into buying him a Snipe Class sailboat. The elder Walet, who is president of the Jefferson Lake Sulphur Co., was soon shanghaied into a task familiar to the parents of juvenile sailors. Landlubber Walet began training as a weekend crewman under his son's command on Lake Ponchartrain...
Brakeman Stöckli, thrown clear in midair, landed atop a parked U.S. jeep and escaped with minor injuries. Crewman Heiland suffered a broken leg and possible spinal injuries; Crewman Gartmann broke his right shoulder. Driver Endrich, a blond, 32-year-old Zurich salesman, his neck broken, was dead on .arrival at Garmisch hospital...
Callow, who coached Penn for 23 years before going to Navy, was frankly jubilant. "I've been trying for ten years to beat Harvard," he crowed. Harvard, which had won every Adams Cup since 1937, was understandably glum. Said Harvard Coach Harvey Love, echoing what every crewman now knew: "Navy certainly is the top crew. They're the ones to knock off-if anyone...