Word: decks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extremely happy to show, them to anyone who dares to drop into his room. The Boz and Ned Bailey still haven't found anything to talk about (not even the common things of our existence like "Anyone else") after three full months of silent feuding on the fourth deck...
...first bomb hit near the bridge. The second smashed through the flight deck amidst the parked planes. The explosions rolled into one tremendous detonation...
...Holocaust. Commander Robert Downes, damage control officer, had just left his cabin. Concussion hurled him back through the closed door and up against the outer bulkhead. The forward elevator, weighing 32 tons, popped up from the flight deck, its plungers blown from their sockets. In a control room in the towering island structure Lieut. William Simon was flung against the overhead. He came to and managed to crawl through a door. Simon was one of three men to escape; 30 died inside. On the gallery deck men were trapped inside jammed doors and baked to death by the breath...
Fire engulfed the planes, shot up and swept the fantail, from which men jumped or were flicked overboard. On the hangar deck, now a roaring furnace, pilots blundered into still-whirling plane propellers, climbed frantically up the folded wings. Later some were found hanging like black, charred monkeys, caught in the overhead structure. The sailors lined up for breakfast died with empty bellies...
Stench of Death. Men began to come out of the numbed state in which, by instinct, they had performed their deeds, heroic or unheroic. The implacable Gehres gave them no rest. The hangar deck, where the worst fires had raged, was a nightmare of crushed planes, ruptured bulkheads, melted debris, burned and shattered bodies. Men had died by burning, by drowning in flooded compartments, by concussion, by electrocution, by hanging, by asphyxiation. Their shipmates cut away the wreckage to get at hundreds of bodies, hauled them out and consigned them to the sea. The stench of death pervaded the passageways...