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...establish the beachheads of the future. The Army has begun supplementing trucks with helicopters, and, in so doing, is regaining a disregard for rough terrain it has not been able to afford since the day of the mule. And today no naval aviator leaves a carrier deck without knowing that a helicopter is hovering near by, ready to swoop and pluck him from the sea if he is forced down...
...rare, brief journeys from his homeland, in 1945, to meet President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, he sailed to Great Bitter Lake in imperial style on the deck of the U.S. destroyer Murphy, with his own tents, two of his sons, the royal astrologer, baaing sheep and dagger-bearing attendants...
...Pray." Dense, black smoke billowed through the port passages and compartments below decks, boiled out of hatches and rose in a pall above the Leyte. A second explosion and a withering blast of heat and flame followed, searing everything in its path. On the third deck, Steward Osie Ward and ten of his shipmates were trapped in the stewards' compartment. "A big flame came down the hatchway to our compartment," said Ward. "At first we didn't react. But a split second later the same thing happened again. One of the men, who was getting ready...
After an hour and a half, rescue workers got to the scene of the explosion, in the third-deck forward catapult room. But the only eyewitnesses, nine men who had been making adjustments on the hydraulic machinery, were dead. FBI agents combed the blackened passages for evidence of sabotage. This week a special Navy board of inquiry opened hearings in Boston, and Commanding Officer Ahroon offered his explanation: an explosion of "vaporized or atomized" hydraulic fluid. The board of inquiry withheld its official verdict, pending further investigation, and the Navy added up its losses: 36 dead, 40 injured, one badly...
...hours and 18 minutes later she popped to the surface, cheerful as a bubble. After the water had been forced from the access tube, Professor Piccard and Jacques came to the deck of the floater and were rowed to the corvette. Leaning on his son, the professor whispered in French: "You speak, Jacques. The credit is all yours...