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...flagship they could see explosions on the Wasp's deck. A few minutes later came heavier explosions on the after part of the hangar deck as fire reached the planes parked there. They looked like red fists striking out over the water...
...into the carrier's weakened plates and sank the destroyer with two more. The concussion broke several men's feet. Lieut. Commander Ernest Davis was blown overboard. Many men had broken arms and legs. The explosion made a hole in the Yorktown's port side from hangar to keel. A sailor standing waist deep on the Hammann was setting the safety on depth bombs so they would not explode beneath the men struggling in the water. He was still working when the destroyer went down...
Record: Perfect. However tough the grind, airline pilots love this work. Long known as the cantankerous prima donnas of aviation, pilots formerly raised the hangar roof if a single field light was out or the stewardess forgot the chewing gum. Now they fly over trackless wastes (usually without radio), land on bad fields, sleep in flimsy shanties-and never squawk. And their record grounds everyone: not a single lost plane, not a single accident...
...while it lasted. The A.V.G.'s flyers knew their stuff from the start, got many a fine point from their C.O., many another the hard way from the Jap. Astute Claire Chennault, as fine a pursuit pilot as ever zoomed a hangar, recognized their abilities, reveled in their high spirits and let them have the run of the sky. They flew pretty much as it pleased them, picked their objectives as lightheartedly as boys going on a picnic, collected their checks, and spent their money (a lot of it on whiskey at $50 a bottle...
...plunked in 45 out of a possible 200. At the toughest kind of firing, where ten in 200 is considered workmanlike, he had given an expert's performance. U.S. fellow students heard of it with respectful whistles. They also commended the Chinese ability in outdoor sports, crap shooting, hangar flying (bull sessions to college students...