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...this the closest Comdr. Morison came to peril. He was on the U.S.S. Honolulu when she sustained two torpodo hits in an engagement with a Japanese task force. "One 'fish' knocked the Honolulu's bow off, and the other hit her square on the fantail, where it hung for about ten minutes, though it fortunately failed to explode." Comdr. Morison ventured to call the engagement "quite a hot fight...
...boat deck. One will have gold draperies, oyster-white leather chairs, blue walls; the other will be done in beige and green. There will be peach carpeting in the lounge, beige in the messroom. The presidential "head" will include a bathtub; guest staterooms will have showers. On the fantail Harry Truman and guests can relax under awnings, in lounge chairs. He will be free to give her any name he chooses, but the Navy thinks Williamsburg a "nice Colonial name" and hopes it will stick...
...lieutenant pointed with his chin: "There he is. He's sitting out there on the fantail alone...
...Hellcats, Helldivers and Corsairs, weighed down with full loads of bombs and rockets, engines thunderously turning over. On the hangar deck more armed and laden planes were warming up, awaiting their turn on the elevators. Below, a crowd of enlisted men were lined up for morning chow. On the fantail a little group of men had just turned away from burying a sailor who had died, of illness, the day before. On the bridge, men conned the skies with glasses. It was 7 minutes past 7 in the dull dawn...
Fire engulfed the planes, shot up and swept the fantail, from which men jumped or were flicked overboard. On the hangar deck, now a roaring furnace, pilots blundered into still-whirling plane propellers, climbed frantically up the folded wings. Later some were found hanging like black, charred monkeys, caught in the overhead structure. The sailors lined up for breakfast died with empty bellies...