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...went on ahead-to look for lynchers' roadblocks, McCall explained later. Then, said McCall, a tire went flat. He got out to fix it. When McCall opened the car door to let Shepherd out, said McCall, the prisoner suddenly smashed at his head with the sheriff's flashlight and yelled to Irvin to get his gun. The sheriff pulled out his revolver, and shot each prisoner three times. Then he radioed Yates to come back, and called a doctor. When the doctor got there, Sammy Shepherd was dead...
...life ring with knife and flashlight attached was thrown to him, but before the crippled L'Apache could come about and work back to the spot, Sierks was out of sight in the vastness of the Pacific. Six nearby yachts converged on the area when they heard L'Apache radio the shocking message: "Man overboard!" From Honolulu, 800 miles away, the Navy sent ships to the manhunt: an escort carrier, four destroyers, three destroyer escorts. An airrescue B-17 droned out from the Army's Hickam Field to join in the search...
...makeshift operating tables, sweating coolies carried off postoperative patients at the rate of one a minute. As each new patient was placed on the table, an assistant washed the clouded eye with a mercury solution and applied a few drops of anesthetic. Then, while another assistant held a flashlight, the surgeon slipped his knife into the patient's eyeball at the exact junction of the transparent cornea and the white sclera. With a snip of his scissors, he cut out a tiny section of the iris. Then, with a deft motion, he flipped out the cataract-clouded lens...
T/SGT. WAYNE H. KERR, of Cleveland, was on safe desk duty, but got into an L-5 at night when other pilots had refused the mission; holding a flashlight in one hand to light up the instrument panel, he landed on a tiny, badly lighted mountain strip and flew out a wounded marine...
...wood) alcohol. The alcohol vapor diffuses downward, becoming colder as it approaches the dry ice at the bottom. At some point in its downward motion it makes the air supersaturated. In this sensitive layer, cosmic rays or other fast-moving atomic particles leave trails that show up in a flashlight beam as brilliant white streaks...