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...action, her altitude ebbing, the crippled raider wobbled in over the waterfront at Clacton-on-Sea, an Essex shore resort (pop. 17,000) about 50 miles from London. When they heard her circling for a flat spot to alight, excited Clactonians forgot blackout rules, turned out to watch. Clacton firemen, ambulance drivers, air-raid workers, long rehearsed, were soon ready. Above, four Nazi airmen passed indescribable minutes as the flares they dropped showed no landing place. The plane came lower and lower...
...weight and speed took the big (74-ft. wingspan) Heinkel through the top of an apartment house, well into a group of seaside villas beyond. There followed a shattering roar of gas tanks and bombs. Firemen, ambulancemen, air-raid wardens hurried to the flaming wreck. Behind them an eager, half-dressed crowd collected. Windows went...
Traffic in the Square was held up for fifteen minutes while firemen, with the help of the 11 engines and hose lines, brought the fire under control before a crowd of several hundred people...
...Flint, Mich., Factory Worker William Zarogny, 26, climbed into an airplane for a flying lesson before his instructor had got aboard, opened the throttle by accident, zoomed downfield toward a crowd of children. Clutching the stick, he roared aloft. While firemen, police and an ambulance assembled, he made several bungling attempts to land, then made a neat three-point landing before them...
...scurrilous was American Progress that no printer in Louisiana dared to touch it. Huey had it printed in Mississippi. He forced all State workers (including New Orleans' State-paid firemen and police) to buy subscriptions in job lots. Merchants who wanted to do business with Louisiana's government found it worth their while to advertise in Huey's paper...