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There had been no abandon-ship order; crewmen, Navy nurses, doctors, dentists and scores of workmen from the Navy Yard simply launched rafts, or planks, or belted on life jackets and jumped for their lives. Toward the end, men waded into the freezing water which lapped up the decks, like bathers walking off a beach. But within 3? hours, in a remarkable rescue, 492 of the living had been lifted from...
...nation from Puerto Rico to California-and his outposts in England, Japan and Okinawa-bristled with readiness. His officers wore their sidearms at desks, at meals and in the air; his "A.P.s" (air police-Air Force for M.P.s) cradled loaded carbines ready for sabotage or parachute attack. Even ground crewmen worked at their big planes with their guns beside them. At one base Curt LeMay strode by a master sergeant who had laid aside his piece to dive into his lunch bag. The C.G. rounded up all the maintenance men for one of his longer speeches. "This afternoon," said...
Last week VF-781, volunteering to the man, became the first organized reserve squadron to be accepted intact for the Korean war. Every pilot in the squadron was ready for active duty on one condition, that they go as a unit. Forty of VF-781's enlisted ground crewmen felt the same way. Their prompt and unanimous application got a brisk salute from Vice Admiral John Dale Price in Washington-and a sheaf of orders to duty...
...Capitan began sliding ahead of the Chief, crewmen on its big diesel heard "something dragging" underneath the mail coach-a brake rigging had broken and dropped to the ties. An instant later, the mail coach lurched off the rails, derailing the Capitan's passenger coaches behind it. Car 2918, El Capitan's middle coach, hurtled off the tracks and sideswiped the Chiefs locomotive, knocking it off the rails into the light brush along the right of way; the Chief's passenger cars jolted, but stayed on the track...
...swift-moving, light cars of El Capitan fared worse. Four of its coaches folded side by side like pleats in a giant steel concertina. Crewmen, and nearby farmers who arrived to help, needed sledge hammers, axes and acetylene torches to cut into some of them. Inside El Capitan's scarred skin were 388 passengers, almost all of them badly scared and shaken. Seventy-five were injured, and nine-most of them in Car 2918-were dead...