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Together they spend the afternoon sightseeing, the evening strolling in a tamed glade overlooking the Hudson River. A milkman (James Gleason) gives them a lift that turns into a nightlong ride through the city; his wife (Lucile Gleason) gives them breakfast and some easygoing advice about marrying in a hurry. Almost against their will, they come to suspect, that they are in love. The suspicion becomes a desperate certainty when, still without knowing each other's last names, they get separated in a subway crush...
...destroyers were ordered to Tushan, where Gleason gaped at the assignment-warehouse after warehouse stacked ceiling high with tons and tons of small-arms ammunition bearing such brand names as Skoda, Krupp, Winchester. Other buildings were filled with mortar shells and dynamite...
...Furies. The Jap tide still rolled on. It rolled up to the great air force base at Liuchow. Gleason and his men did their ruinous best there. They wanted to fire the city too, but wretched Chinese householders, waving guns, refused to let them...
They tackled the first warehouse, "trying it for size." It went very well. Ammo cans sizzled and pup-pupped, flames licked heavenward. They fused the second warehouse. Mortar shells began whistling around them. Amid explosion and fire Gleason's furies danced, hugging their TNT as they ran. With gasoline, alcohol and straw they fed the holocaust...
...Gleason looked back. "When the last dump went off there was a single column of black smoke that went straight up with the most terrific sound you ever heard ... a black column 100 yards thick holding up the overcast like a pillar." Gleason's destroyers joined the horde of China's fleeing homeless. Six people sprawled, exhausted, on the last bridge along their retreat. Gleason's men dragged them off, blew the bridge and hurried...