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...fighting at Midway and Okinawa, Moviemakers Wald and Daves combed through some 2½ million feet of U.S. Navy combat film. The results-in both black & white and Technicolor-are breathtaking. Some of the shots, which moviegoers will remember from wartime newsreels-of planes toppling across a flight deck like gasoline torches and of Kamikazes dissolving into smoke and matchwood 100 yards from the carrier's bridge-have the effect of recurring nightmares. Equally effective, except for the muttering background music, are the crowded shots of a carrier's communications room, the intricate, knotted nerve center...
...last of the fifth, the Braves put on a concentrated campaign of delay. The Troubadours started it off by playing "Night and Day." Connie Ryan came on deck wearing a raincoat, evidently to imply that it was raining rather heavily on the field. Barlick permitted him to leave the field at a minimum cost...
...movie, found the theaters jammed, came back to the ship to play gin rummy in the lounge. At 2:25 a.m. they smelled smoke, dropped their cards and rushed out to the corridor. Down its narrow length they saw crewmen fighting a blaze in an inside cabin on C deck...
...water taxi headed for the Noronic and was soon filled with passengers pulling themselves out of the water or jumping from the first deck. Some landed on the roof of the cabin and broke through it. "There was blood all over the boat," said the taxi's pilot...
...until after 7 a.m. that the Noronic's* smoldering hulk, settled in mud 28 feet below the surface, could be boarded by firemen. The wooden superstructure was gone, steel deck plates were buckled. From twisted davits hung fire-scarred metal lifeboats, looking like flimsy toys that had been smashed by an angry child. In a knee-deep litter of embers and melted glass, the firemen went to work with blowtorches, pike poles and shovels, to get to the charred bodies of those who had been burned or asphyxiated or trampled to death...