Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loaded the planes with big bombs, then slept right in the planes. At dawn we went sailing down the runway heading for Cebu city. At Cebu we made three passes over the target, which was the dock area and shipping. The first time, it just looked like an idle harbor scene - bunches of ships stacked every which way. When we turned around we saw the docks were all afire. On the second pass we hit a transport right amidships. While stuff was still settling around it, she turned over on her side...
...liner were taken. Coast Guards put aboard became only casually familiar with her intricate machinery. Only three or four of her fire extinguishers were examined. Expert estimate: probably only about 50% were in good condition; faulty equipment was not replaced. Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co., subsidiary of Todd Shipyards Corp., which had the contract to convert her into a naval auxiliary vessel, took inadequate precautions against fire. Authority was undefined. Although the committee found no evidence of sabotage, opportunities for it were "abundant." Background to Chaos was laid when Washington ordered the Normandie made ready to sail for Boston...
...days Cebu's people had taken to the hills every time a ship appeared in the roadstead. After each false, alarm, lean, grey, Lieut. Colonel Howard J. Edmands and his little denim-clad Filipino M.P.s tramped back from the dock areas through the street, jaunty and unafraid with their rifles and their single machine gun. The remains of Cebu's population quieted down, and waited...
...maneuverability was excellent except going astern. After one trial run it took a Navy tug an hour of backing & filling to get her into dock...
...Just as we'd pulled alongside the dock and he'd shut off the motors, a piston cracked. The motors wouldn't have turned another time...