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...Turn away from the flash, fall flat, close your eyes, cover head and arms against flash burns. Outside, get as close as you can to a building or tree for protection against falling debris. Inside, dive under a bed or desk or behind a sofa...
...Beautiful, Harry!" In our flight there were six dive bombers, carrying a total of some 18,000 Ibs. of bombs. High overhead we had eight Corsairs flying cover. We moved in on the railroad marshaling yards just southwest of Seoul, a wide scar in the countryside filled with railroad tracks and cars...
...peeled off to the left and went roaring down at an angle of about 80 degrees. I seemed to be standing on my head. At 3,000 feet, the plane pulled out of the dive, leveled for a moment, then climbed steeply to the left. When my eyes would focus again, I could see a tower of brown, dirty smoke rising from the center of the marshaling yards. May said we had dropped two of our three 1,000-lb. bombs...
...Beautiful, Harry!" someone called over the radio. We climbed for another dive as the rest of the flight went in. Another plane's bombs landed directly upon a bridge and it collapsed onto the tracks. Other planes set a row of boxcars on fire and ripped up long lines of track...
...engulfed in smoke and dirt. Ensign Profilet's plane followed with another 500-pounder. Just to make sure, Loranger clobbered her with a third bomb and we went after the truck. On his first run, Loranger came down with his cannon wide open, then pulled out of his dive and laid a bomb right in the truck bed. As we pulled up, we discovered he had not only disintegrated the truck but had also ripped up the whole road...