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Word: gradell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1958-1958
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Added the navigator, Lieut. Colonel George Gradel: "Everything felt wrong. The aircraft had gone into a dive. Once that happened, it happened fast. Then I heard a voice which just said, 'Bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Bone Crusher | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...left leg, belted his face and body into a raw, black and blue mess. Then his chute opened. Pilot Smith ejected next, took the same pummeling as his body shot into the steely air, but his chute never opened and he fell, crushed, to the ground. Navigator Gradel's blast-out broke his arms and legs, his right shoulder, lashed his face and knocked him unconscious. He woke to see his parachute above him, passed out again on the way down. The needle-nosed $8,000,000 Hustler screamed down, tore a 30-ft. crater in the ground, cracked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Bone Crusher | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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