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...Prophet. When four years ago MacArthur stood, tieless and ramrod straight, on the veranda deck of the U.S.S. Missouri, accepting Japan's surrender from a group of uniformed and frock-coated little men, neither he nor his nation realized that...
Just as the Magdalena neared famed Sugar Loaf, her deck plates began to buckle. Captain Lee dropped anchor, for the second time gave the abandon-ship order. Then, with a rending sound like the falling of a giant tree, the ship broke in two, her nose rising crazily...
Aboard the Amethyst, other wounded and the dead still lay on the deck. The British destroyer Consort had started from Nanking at the Amethyst's first S O S, to succor the stranded crew. The Consort was flying seven large British flags. She, too, was fired upon by the Reds, and retaliated with her 4½-inch guns. "It was bloody awful," said a Cockney survivor from the Consort. "But we gave it back to 'em. I saw one of their nahsty damned 'owitzers blown right aht of its bloody emplacement. Sky 'igh it went...
...hours without a break, and much of the time without lights, the Consort's surgeon tended the wounded in a wardroom littered with bits of human tissue and bloodstained clothing. The wounded were lined up on deck waiting to receive treatment; Petty Officer Harry Greening stood patiently at the end of the line, with an injured hand. The Red fire got hotter. Greening moved up: "Excuse me, sir, but I think I ought to get looked after a bit sooner now. I've been hit again." He was; his kneecap had been shot away...
...terriers staged a big comeback in the sprint and almost nipped MIT. the Engineers, closing fast, finished just a deck-length ahead...