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...Connor, 19, and Raymond Smithson, 24, were given a tin cupful of rum by a fat officer in the conning tower. Suddenly a U.S. patrol plane appeared in the distance. O'Connor and Smithson were pushed down into the control room while the U-boat made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued men. They were given tea and black bread, questioned by the commander in perfect English. Two hours later the submarine surfaced, put the two seamen aboard a raft with water, hardtack...
Behind this larger ship, which Tex Hill later described as a light cruiser or destroyer, were two gunboats. Toward these Major Tex Hill now led his fighters in a great swooping dive. He made a pass at a destroyer but, on getting close and looking at it, he saw that it was armed to the teeth, so he swerved off, made a sharp bank and came down within 50 feet of the water, with all guns wide open shooting lead into the first gunboat. Before we could get to the second gunboat the deck was swept clean-figures threw themselves...
Nazi U-boat commanders have good cause this week to cry: Achtung! (Look out!) and crash-dive. Coming at them at hitherto unattainable speed is an improved type of U.S. subchaser powered by an extraordinary new engine and driven by an extraordinary new propeller...
...meet it. On-percentage (but not in over-all numbers), losses in U.S. aircraft and men were appallingly high from that time on. Of six Marine torpedo planes that went out, only one returned; of four Army torpedo planes, two came back. A flight of 16 Marine dive-bombers went after a carrier believed to be the Soryu (Blue Dragon). Only eight returned. A battleship was bombed, left smoking and listing...
...battle had been won; the Jap was retiring. High overhead the Fortresses patrolled his fleeing fleet, nudging it along with bombs. The carriers took up the pursuit-all but one. The Yorktown was out of action. Against that 19,900-ton beauty the Jap had sent 18 dive-bombers. The fighters knocked down eleven. But three Jap planes got direct hits on the carrier. Torpedo planes followed, slammed her hard. The Yorktown heeled over into a list. Her flyers went to other carriers...