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Two tests will be necessary: 1) upon a fleet at anchor in shallow water, where divers could go down later to examine the hulls of sunken ships; 2) upon a fleet in deep water. Both are extremely difficult to arrange. In neither case can the ships be manned. The shallow...
Match into Holocaust. Production costs are pared by filming time-eating outdoor shots with low-paid doubles and stunt men. With transparencies and miniatures, the film is finished in the studio, using a minimum of a well-paid actor's time. The Bills wangle Army & Navy tie-ins : in...
Now Sullivan's beaver-busy wreckers worked to clear the inner harbor, so ships could maneuver inside Manila's sea wall. After that they would move on, to tidy some other grisly graveyard. Danger was their business - Sullivan had picked some of his veterans out of the New...
At Manila, where U.S. Navy carrier planes set an all-time mark for destruction, they went to work while Japs still spat bullets from behind grass-grown earth works on dead ships. Flamethrowers disposed of the Japs; then Sullivan's men methodically disposed of the snips. Sixty salvagers, half...
At Sullivan's right hand in Manila is Commander Byron S. Huie Jr., 40, a former Treasury attorney whose salvage units rescued 2,340 men from the waters off Omaha Beach in the first 48 hours after Dday. Both the Commodore and his executive officer work right alongside their...