Word: flattop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light carrier Independence. Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, boss of Operation Crossroads, said as he stepped on the hulk's buckled flight deck: "She certainly can't be called a flattop any more. She's a rooftop...
Deck crews on a flattop in the Pacific had to look twice before they laughed. On a destroyer idling alongside was a huge sign, addressed to Japanese suicide pilots, who are pretty much staying at home these days. Scrawled under a big arrow was the legend: "This Way to the Carriers...
Practically Yours (Paramount) is the story of a heroic flyer (Fred MacMurray) who outlives his suicide-dive at a Japanese flattop; of an infatuated former officemate (Claudette Colbert) who gets the mistaken impression that he is in love with her; and of their efforts, during his two weeks' leave, to keep the public fooled for the public's own, hero-worshipping sake. Though it recalls the brilliant Hall the Conquering Hero, the picture is in many respects just the sort of smoothly routine, over-contrived comedy that Colbert and MacMurray team so crisply in. Yet its artificial flowers...
...story of this flattop begins with green young men, many of them unbelievably boyish, endlessly rehearsing their deck and air routines, or loafing in the sunlight as their floating town lounges through the improbable colors of the Gulf Stream and edges her way through the Panama Canal. While they loaf, they wonder. Their destination is still as dead a blank to them as their experience of combat. Then, well out in the Pacific, in some rough, wonderful shots, they meet a tanker and refuel, and know at least that their job is to be long and businesslike...
Having laid the little-lamented assistant for disbursing to rest along with Flattop, the class is now busily engaged in perusing railroad time tables for the trip home, and seeking apartments for the new crop of blushing brides expected to arrive circa 4 June. All is proof that time runs quick as Ohliger and W. T. Johnson will agree...