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Then a shore searchlight shot onto us, illuminating us like actors on a darkened stage. In the glare I saw the green, pale faces of the soldiers and then one of them growled: "Why don't they shoot out that goddam searchlight...
...soon it was plain that they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads. I had turned away, momentarily blinded by gun glare, and was hanging on to the bridge shield when I saw the white track of a torpedo shooting straight for us. A signalman saw it too, and yelled, but it was too late to turn...
...Glass-fiber yarns, once woven into decorative fabrics, are now limited to war uses only. Fireproof, rotproof and impervious to salt air, Fiberglas curtains Navy doorways to save weight and metal. Glass fabric is also used as a lampshade on million-candle-power reconnaissance flares to keep the glare out of observers' eyes and camera lenses...
...searchlight bridge opens up now, and the wallowing hulk of the U-boat is clearly outlined in the glare. It shudders and rocks as the three-inch shells pour into it at the water line. Everybody on the cutter is yelling like a madman. Up forward you can see the Negro crew of number five gun, working like a machine, and grinning all the while. They throw the shells into the gun in a steady stream-the fastest gun crew on the cutter. And their lips move as they pour hot steel into the submarine. They're singing...
Under the open sky in the bright glare of the moon the thin column of soldiers advancing with the slow step of a funeral procession appeared pitifully small. As they went with dead, plodding steps by me and up and out of sight over the slope, I thought that in the final analysis it is not planes, nor tanks, nor guns that bring victory in battle, but the infantry that go forward and drive the enemy from their positions and open a way for the rest of the army to follow over their bodies...