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Afterward men remembered their moments of preoccupation just before the disaster. The first of the Franklin's planes had taken off; on her flight deck were Hellcats, Helldivers and Corsairs, weighed down with full loads of bombs and rockets, engines thunderously turning over. On the hangar deck more armed and laden planes were warming up, awaiting their turn on the elevators. Below, a crowd of enlisted men were lined up for morning chow. On the fantail a little group of men had just turned away from burying a sailor who had died, of illness, the day before...
Fire engulfed the planes, shot up and swept the fantail, from which men jumped or were flicked overboard. On the hangar deck, now a roaring furnace, pilots blundered into still-whirling plane propellers, climbed frantically up the folded wings. Later some were found hanging like black, charred monkeys, caught in the overhead structure. The sailors lined up for breakfast died with empty bellies...
...private flying-and the sale of oil and gasoline-at the 505-acre field. For its unprecedented duration-plus-15-years lease, North American plans to pay wealthy, progressive Westchester County some $899,050 in cash. The company will also spend $833,400 for administration, flying school, civic center, hangar and other buildings...
...city under cover of the long nights and thick weather. Some were left behind, to fight for time. They depressed the muzzles of antiaircraft guns against the attackers, and fired on them with guns from crippled U.S. tanks. On the airfield there was a bitter battle from hangar to hangar, from room to room of the barracks...
Recipe for Teeth. Soon Comedian Coward found himself in Syria, surrounded by the "comparatively Free French." There he sang to a huge R.A.F. audience, unaware that the rafters of the hangar were teeming with nesting birds. When Mr. Coward piped up, shrill cries answered him from above. "Just bloody little dickybirds," said the colonel...