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...aboard. She stopped several times and members of the crew could be seen manning hand pumps. . . . Once when under way . . . it appeared that the lighter was going to overturn . . . the coxswain had left the pilot house and was steering the vessel from the rail" (obviously preparing for a quick getaway if she foundered...
...full control of "The Slot," the 300-mile water invasion route down the middle of the Solomon Islands cluster. U.S. and Jap fleets have slugged it out in The Slot for a year and a half. Last week the Japs could not even use its waters safely for a getaway. Apparently hoping to evacuate troops stranded in Kolombangara (TIME, Aug. 30), they tried to run The Slot with barges. U.S. planes, destroyers and PT boats destroyed nearly 150 of them in a month, patrolled The Slot virtually unchallenged...
...alike, 4) completes his explosive assignment in the hotfooted course of one of those thrilling, dreamlike chases in which pursuers stick out their chins for the hero, great iron doors delay their closing just long enough for him to skin through, and a car and plane synchronize a getaway as happy, and unlikely, as a chain letter that really pays...
...Getaway. One day the struggle to sustain morale got too much for Hélion. From the ship's black market, where a few intrepid souls stole, bought and sold civilian garments for purposes of escape, Hélion bought a complete outfit. He obtained the forged leave-card and passport of a Belgian worker which were to take him successfully all the way across Germany into then unoccupied France...
...Hotel before the last Germans had cleared out. There weren't any Allied troops within three or four miles, but so many natives and Frenchmen turned out to cheer Lang and his friends that the Nazis inside scrammed out the back door to the garage and made their getaway after planting grenades in the motors of all the cars they were not using for their escape...