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According to Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager, last night's blackout test was a complete success. The University dimmed its lights and hid under a bushel in the required two minutes with only a small incident in Holworthy marring the tranquility of the evening...
...bank where the bridge was to be built was low, flat and easily seen by the Germans atop their high, sheer bank. Engineer Sosnovkin therefore decided to build his bridge backwards from the German side, beginning it in the shelter of the high bank. On a night when clouds hid the moon and snow shrouded the river, the strongest swimmers crossed with the foundation stones in stretchers and in their tunics. Others swam with the logs. Blue-black with cold, praying that the ice along the bank would not crack and betray them by the sound, they laid the first...
...never saw such excitement," said General Clark later. "Maps disappeared like lightning. A French general changed into civilian clothes in one minute flat, and I last saw him going out of a window. They were going in all directions." The Americans hid in a wine cellar, Clark with a revolver in one hand and 15,000 francs in the other, "to shoot them or bribe them." After an hour the police went away. The Americans escaped...
...Luftwaffe's late, great Ernst Udet exhibited three German planes in Buffalo. Doolittle casually asked Udet for permission to try one. Udet watched Doolittle whip around the sky, hid his head in his hands and moaned: "Oh, my God, my poor plane...
...Captain Carl lost five days' flying to Smith when he was shot down in his fighter No. 13. He bailed out at about 15,000 feet, hit the water four miles from shore. He struggled four hours before a native picked him up in a canoe. The native hid Carl until he was strong enough to start back to camp on foot. But the Japs had landed between the Marines and the native village. "I fixed up an old motorboat the native had and went back by sea," Carl said, without explaining that he had had to putt-putt...