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...flagship they could see explosions on the Wasp's deck. A few minutes later came heavier explosions on the after part of the hangar deck as fire reached the planes parked there. They looked like red fists striking out over the water...
...easy: I knew I had gas enough to get to an island, or that I could land by one of the cruisers. It was what was happening to our force. I thought there had been an enemy air attack. That's what it looked like. The flight deck was burning from amidships, toward each end, in two lines just like two little forest fires. The whole island structure was white, as if the skin had been burned away from the flesh. I thought I saw a crowd of men standing on the after part of the flight deck...
...thought that Sunday morning, when the alarm bell rang, was: "Here I am on a Liberty ship jammed to the gunwales with Russian supplies in the biggest convoy the British have tried to punch through. So the Germans will put on their biggest show." He ran on deck...
...steel-grey ocean. Allied merchantmen were scattered from horizon to horizon. But some of the escort ships, tossing white water in their haste, had swerved from their courses to concentrate in one area. A Russian freighter, near enough for Seaman Herman to see the sailors on her deck, had already been torpedoed and was sinking. Astern of her another merchantman began to founder in the icy sea. Herman's ship could not wait. Rescue work, what there was time for, was up to the warships...
...dusty and the lights might go out, but the survivors had better stay below. Over the amplifiers came the same clipped voice (it was a lieutenant standing on the bridge). "You chaps in the mess hall," came his cheerful voice, "in case of a hit lie prone on the deck. . . . Here they come, sir-5-17- 22-30-44 torpedo bombers coming...