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That day on the sunbathed Coral Sea the Jap caught hell. The bombers piled in after the Navy, and planes from both branches went after the enemy hot & heavy with flat bombers, dive-bombers and torpedo-carriers. It was too much. Airmen finally saw the Jap swing around to the north. He had had enough...
...bomber circled, while an observer took movies of one of the great naval battles of World War II. He caught the zigzag wakes of six warships, dodging a shower of bombs, the telltale circulars of two stricken aircraft carriers steaming out of control, the streaking course of bellowing dive-bombers blasting at stricken ships...
...navies go, the U.S. Navy is not conservative. It pioneered in dive-bombing, in landings and take-offs from carrier decks, in torpedo-plane attack. But the Navy is conservative, if not downright shortsighted, in its officer promotion system...
...shore positions he opened up with 240-mm. (about 9½ in.) guns. The big projectiles hit Corregidor with the clatter of runaway freights, shot up great geysers of dirt and stone. Corregidor pounded back, between times manned its AA, guns against almost constant attack by flat and dive-bombers...
...Hitchcock formula is fairly well known by now, and "Saboteur" rarely departs from the established norm. In fact, there are several repeat patterns from former Hitchcock triumphs, notably "The Thirty-Nine Steps," as evidenced in the handcuff scene, the dive from the bridge, and the escape up the rapids. This time the story is set in America. An aircraft factory in Los Angeles is sabotaged; Barry Keane, one of the workers, is accused of setting the fire. He runs away from the police and trails the real saboteur across the country, till the chase comes to a feverish...