Word: decking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found strength and counsel in other Roosevelt holdovers. Speechwriter Sam Rosenman had been persuaded to stay, at least for another year. Owlish Judge Vinson, the Economic Stabilizer, was now top adviser on domestic affairs. Jimmy Byrnes, working on a special project at his Spartanburg (S.C.) home, was still on deck: he would go along to the forthcoming Big Three meeting. And, to the consternation of all red-blooded anti-New Dealers, Harry Truman had even kept smart Dave Niles as a Presidential assistant...
Five got through her fighter cover and her wildly crackling antiaircraft fire. Four of them smashed into her. The fifth plane, knocked into the sea, freakishly bounced into her side and exploded, rupturing her skin near the waterline. Flaming gasoline spewed across her hangar deck. One bomb penetrated four decks, wiping out living quarters. Fire swept the forward part of the flight deck...
...turned hoses on blazing planes (see cut). Gradually they got the fires under control, but not before planes parked on the hangar deck had been turned into charred skeletons. Gunners fought off a second plane attack. One bomb landed. Total casualties: 123 killed or missing; 192 wounded...
...COMINCH" corridor, on the second "deck" forward of the Navy Building in Washington, leads to the austere office of the fleet Commander in Chief, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. Down this formidable channel, one day recently, steamed Vice-Admiral Aubrey Fitch. He bore with him a topside-shaking plan...
...planes approached. . . . Antiaircraft fire got one. Another came in low . . . struck and swept across the deck house, knocking out some of our guns and starting fires in the 40-mm. magazine. Within 30 seconds two planes hit the afterdeck house, sealing several men to their deaths in compartments below. Just then a Corsair came chasing a Japanese right over the mainmast. The Jap took off half the yardarm and the Corsair took off the other half. The Jap crashed in the water. The Corsair pulled out with a wing damaged, shot down another plane and then crashed. Another ship rescued...