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...other crew members who survived remembered no steep dive. Their accounts were all the same; the engines had been throttled, the plane had gone into a normal glide, turned, crashed. They had thought Rod Sullivan was making a routine landing...
When CABmen got to Lisbon, Rod Sullivan tried to help them solve the mystery of the crash. But he could not understand what had happened. The plane, he said, had suddenly gone into a steep dive. He had pulled the throttles, turned to make an emergency landing. He agreed that a better remedy would have been to increase power to pull the plane out of its unusual attitude. He could not say why he had not done...
Guns for Gags. The North Africa-Sicily circuit was toughest of all. Bombed in Algiers, Bizerte, Palermo, Hope once almost dislocated his hip, once got jammed between two targets-an airport and an ammunition dump. In a Palermo hotel, he and Block were writing a script during a dive-bombing. Commented Block: "We did a show and ran for our lives." Cracked Hope: "I've never done anything else...
...White faces stared up from the U-boat's deck. Men rushed to the conning tower and clambered in. The U-boat crash-dived. Down through the Atlantic's summer sky Pilot Thomas H. Isley's U.S. Army Liberator screamed in an eight-mile dive at a target of agitated water. From the plane's belly dropped a depth charge. The swirling sea gushed forth black blobs...
...Pilot Walter S. McDonnell had spotted another surfaced raider and had put his big, four-motored Liberator into a dive. Also caught by surprise, that German crew' chose to fight it out. They turned deck guns on McDonnell's plane. The bombardier, navigator, co-pilot and assistant radio operator were wounded; McDonnell leveled off only a few feet above the waves, his wounded bombardier dropped depth charges which straddled the wriggling chattering sub. In a mass of smoke and fire it broke in two and sank...