Word: intercom
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There is also a moment, inside the same tank, of intercom dialogue which was recorded on the spot. It is spoken, against insane din, in voices so local, so familiar, that your impulse is to look into the face of the last man who spoke and say something in reply. But the speaker's face does not appear; and if you are a civilian, it is unlikely that there are any words you could find...
Company in the Night. Allen spoke up through the intercom: "There is a B-29 on our left," and almost simultaneously from other sections of the ship the intercom was full of reports. There were other Superfortresses around...
...Flying Fortress was on instruments in dense cloud over Italy. Tail Gunner James A. Raley, on his thirteenth mission, heard the navigator call out the altitude -19,500 feet. Then the plane jolted, seemed to stop. The intercom went out. Sergeant Raley, hurled into one of the air war's strangest adventures, figured in his lonely section that his plane had collided with another Fortress...
...Chaplain Major Randolph L. Gregory, onetime Washington Baptist pastor, confirmed an oddly rough and reverent tale: One of the pilots at the station, a man of genuine piety and strict devotion to business, found his bomber butting into a buzz saw of Focke-Wulf 190s over Europe. Over the intercom to his gunners he started repeating the Lord's Prayer...
...Georgia Peach's guns were never silent, vibrating like riveters; empty brass cartridges piled up on the floor of the nose. Suddenly against a white cloud bank far ahead appeared dark specks. "I think the Spits are coming back," said intercom. "Be careful, though, boys." Spitfires streaked toward us, lipped into the Germans, then came back, darting protectively across our tail and either wing...