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...paused and pointed. "Look," he said, "there's one getting ready to drown himself now." Down below, a young Japanese, no more than 15, paced back & forth across the rocks. He swung his arms, as if getting ready to dive; then he sat down at the edge and let the water play over his feet. Finally he eased himself slowly into the water...
...veteran of a previous British mission to Marshal Tito (see PRESS), flew from Italy to Yugoslavian Partisan headquarters with his good friend Major Evelyn Waugh, satirical English novelist (Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags) and Comman-doman. As the plane neared the field it went into a dive and crashed, killing the five-man crew and two Partisan passengers. Churchill, Waugh, British War Correspondent Philip Jordan and four Russian officers escaped with minor injuries, next day were evacuated by plane to a British hospital in Italy...
...caught behind the German lines. He pushed ahead so fast he far outdistanced our own infantry-didn't discover he had crossed No Man's Land until bullets from the German snipers and machine-gunners began kicking up dust all around him. Meanwhile our own dive bombers were plastering the whole area, and one of Landry's comrades reported later that "only a few hundred yards from where we were crouching the Germans in their fortifications were being blown to bits as the ground heaved with concussions." Landry was mighty glad to see our troops when they...
...addition to the rope climb, a landing not descent, 100 yard dash, 100 yard obstacle course--"The Guadalcanal Special,"--and lastly, a 3.7 mile cross-country jaunt along the river bank. The "Special," feature of this endurance test, is a straight sprint over walls, ditches, and sandtraps, a submarine dive, and finally zig-zagging through a maze of sandtraps and runways...
...Instead of getting used to it, I become less used to it as the years go by. With me it seems to have had a cumulative effect. I am much more afraid of a plane overhead now than I was during the London blitz, or even during our early dive-bombing days in Africa. With those four narrow squeaks at Anzio [where a bomb blew in two walls of a room where he was sleeping] coming after a year and a half of sporadic squeaks, I have begun to feel I have about used up my chances...