Word: hatchway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoken, not from the stand, but from a hatchway 20 feet away...
From the bridge of the aircraft carrier Illustrious last January Larry Allen got one of the best action stories of the war, when he (and the Illustrious) miraculously survived a savage, seven-hour attack of 50 Stukas and torpedo planes. Singed and blown down a hatchway, he stuck to the ship as it was bombed again at Malta. After that nervy feat of reporting, Rear Admiral Lyster declared that Allen was the "darling" of the British Mediterranean fleet...