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Several months ago they met an Australian private, John Leslie Stokie, who was also hiding in the jungle. The four began building two dugout canoes in which they hoped to escape to New Guinea...
...planes got through. A tethered barrage balloon was shot down, another was shot free by British antiaircraft. There were very few casualties from bombing. But, on the night of the raid, 178 people died in an accident more gruesome than any of its kind since the Chungking dugout panic, when 461 were suffocated or crushed to death. This is what happened in London...
...Hurlbut asks above the shellfire: 'Do any of you fellows mind if I say the Lord's Prayer?' We press him and he recites the prayer in a loud voice that fills the dugout above the noise of the guns and comforts us. We murmur 'Amen' when he is finished and sit in shocked silence while the earth continues to rock...
...Last year on this day I trembled in a dugout when Japanese planes droned overhead. This year we are comfortably eating here...
...grade-A love story. Cooper meets his future wife (Teresa Wright) at the White Sox ball park in Chicago. It is his first chance to bat for the Yankees. On his way to the plate he pratfalls on the carefully laid-out row of bats in front of the dugout. "Tanglefoot!" cries Teresa. He gets even by marrying...