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...subs worked close to shore. Off the southeastern coast, a U-boat slipped in shore and sank two barges and a tug with gunfire. She stood so close by that the barge crews could hear the commands of the officers on her deck...
...Desanka Mohorovicic began to feel the pangs. It was just ten hours since she and 23 others in the boat had pushed away from a torpedoed cargo-passenger ship somewhere off the Atlantic coast. Many of the company had been bruised and battered as they tumbled along the listing deck and slid down manropes into the lifeboat. The ship's surgeon, Dr. Leonard Hudson Conly, on whom Mrs. Mohorovicic now depended, had two broken ribs. Mrs. Mohorovicic herself had hurt her legs badly when she fell, carrying her two-year-old daughter Visna to the boat...
...boats whined and sputtered. Above her. R.A.F. bombers roared and pounded. From the shore two powerful searchlights sought her out, and as the land batteries cut loose with furious cross-fire she belched angrily from her four thin stacks, stepped up her speed to 20 knots. Her 4-in. deck guns were quick to answer the shells that screamed at her from every side. Before her explosive-laden bow piled into the dock gates of St.-Nazaire, she had sunk a Nazi flak* ship, stung many a shore battery with the last broadsides she would ever fire...
...frantically with the falls of a lifeboat. Said Kelly: "I saw the captain, with his face all bloody, run through the flames along the flying bridge and come aft." In launching, the lifeboat turned over, and Kelly and his shipmates hid under it when the sub cut loose with deck guns. When things quieted down, they clambered up on the bottom of the boat and waited for dawn...
...none will go so far as the dreamboat design put out by Industrial Stylist George W. Walker of Detroit. He went all the way, streamlined his ship like an airplane, put his main battery in mushroom turrets, massed bridge and stack into a bulletlike island alongside a launching deck for aircraft. It was another vision. But no man could reasonably say that the battleship of 1955 might not have more than a passing resemblance to the dreamboat Walker...