Word: decking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helen of Bikini." As the concrete caisson to house Helen was lowered from the weapons ship Albemarle to LSM 60, Senator Carl Hatch got in a plug for his home state by chalking on its side "Made in New Mexico." Through a specially designed opening in the tank-deck of the landing ship, the caisson was lowered several fathoms into the limpid waters of Bikini lagoon. Then all except a few specialists headed out to open water...
...funnel built into the forward part of her island had been blown across the deck. Like other vessels in the inner ring, she had been swung around so that her bow faced the detonation point. But the force which had done this had finished the Sara. The only vessel in the target array with a triple-skinned hull, she had nevertheless been ripped open below the waterline. Slowly she settled, listing ever more sharply; seven hours later the 33,000-ton carrier sank...
...light carrier Independence. Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, boss of Operation Crossroads, said as he stepped on the hulk's buckled flight deck: "She certainly can't be called a flattop any more. She's a rooftop...
...heavy cruiser Pensacola, the only ship which showed serious damage below the main deck. She, too, had a deep depression in an armored deck amidships...
...dawn darkness last week, 4,000 G.I.s cordoned off a 45-mile stretch of the Danube in U.S.-occupied Bavaria, rounded up 397 river craft. Tight-jawed G.I.s routed out sleeping sailors and their women, led them shivering on deck with the command, in G.I. German: "Snell-like" (hurry up). One fuzz-cheeked soldier who found a rust-covered fowling piece dashed topside, tripped, fell in the river in the best Keystone comedy manner...