Word: hatchway
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...enter these rooms through the hatchway; the camera hovers overhead like a voyeur, and the four walls vibrate with a new personality. The most fascinating of the four passengers is Pere Jules (Michel Simon), a crusty old naval Caliban who exists totally on a physical level. During one memorable scene he shows the captain's young wife, Juliette (Dita Parle), the souvenirs from his voyages to the South Seas: horns and masks, beads and three satanic cats that jump without warning and perch on Pere Jules' shoulders...
...rose in a pall above the Leyte. A second explosion and a withering blast of heat and flame followed, searing everything in its path. On the third deck, Steward Osie Ward and ten of his shipmates were trapped in the stewards' compartment. "A big flame came down the hatchway to our compartment," said Ward. "At first we didn't react. But a split second later the same thing happened again. One of the men, who was getting ready for a shower, ran up the hatchway and into the flame. The ensign and I pulled him down...
...Then we heard a cry from the hatchway and we ran over there and pulled down a burning officer. He was burned beyond recognition. We put blankets around him and he said, 'I am a Catholic. Get me a chaplain. My blood is type A.' I told him that all of us were trapped down there and there was nothing we could do. He then told us to use the Morse Code and tap it out on the bulkhead." The sailors didn't know the code, so the injured officer taught them how to hammer...
...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...