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...Americans had only 26 boats. They gathered their craft half a mile downstream while British artillery raked the Germans across the river. But when the first force of Americans pushed off, the river splattered around them with machine-gun and mortar fire. Each of the 26 boats carried a dozen men, but only 13 boats returned for more paratroopers. Some paddled, some bailed with their canteen cups. This time only eight boats returned (one carried back three dead and four wounded). After the third trip there were only five boats. They kept going...
Merry-Go-Round. In Saint John, New Brunswick, Alphonse Arsenault plunged, fully clothed, into roaring Reversing Falls, which nobody had ever survived, got caught in a huge whirlpool that spun him merry-go-round while he shouted "Whoops," two minutes later washed him ashore, still whooping, 100 yards downstream...
...building Shasta. But to strapping (205 lb., 6 ft. 3 in.), profane Francis Trenholm Crowe, general superintendent of construction for Pacific Constructors, Inc., the big moment had come four months before, when the Sacramento River began a regulated flow through outlet valves on the dam's broad, sloping downstream face. "That meant we had the river licked," said Crowe. "Pinned down, shoulders right on the mat. Hell, that's what we came up here...
Barging In. In Yonkers, N.Y., when a barge broke away from its moorings and began drifting down the Hudson, police hopped into a car and dashed to a dock downstream, hoping they could figure out a way to catch it. At the dock they found the barge neatly self-berthed...
...Gordon Seagrave, Burma-born mission doctor, picked berries and vegetables, made stews complementing the small rice diet. Our ofttimes drooping morale was also kept alive by these girls, all of whom were between the ages of 17 and 22, singing Christian hymns, ancient American jazz, as they marched barefoot downstream through heat-scorched thickets and over rocky trails toward India, always in higher spirits and better health than the male members of the party, to whom at the end of each day they gave medical treatment-piercing blisters, bandaging infections, soothing bruised spirits in as romantic a setting as Hollywood...