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Escape and Reward. On another patrol we waylaid a convoy. It was bright moonlight and rather difficult to carry out an attack on the surface because eventually we would be sighted. I hadn't appreciated they were zigzagging. When I was just ready to fire, everything all set, the fellow I was attacking zigged straight towards me. I couldn't get deep quite soon enough and the ship ran over the top of us. It smashed both periscopes, and took away quite large chunks of the bridge. We snooped beneath the convoy until they had passed. We were...
Then a soldier came into the cowshed and said there were some more bodies out side. We went out into the road. Four mules stood there in the moonlight, in the road where the trail came down off the mountain. The soldiers who led them stood there waiting...
...recent morning Liberator B for Baker sighted a surfaced U-boat, bright in the moonlight. Immediately he released depth charges. The sub fired back with cannon, then dived. For 2 ½ hours B for Baker searched for it. saw nothing. Then suddenly R for Roger sighted it again and dove to attack from 60 feet. But Roger's bombs stuck, and on his second try shells from the battling sub wrecked his hydraulic system. Over & over he circled to keep watch on the sub while his gunner slithered in oil trying to fix the bomb releases...
...watched the Grandolets growing richer, and Victoria becoming the cool, aloof mother of the Grandolet heir, did not know that the household was anything but successful. Victoria did not know, when the years of deception finally ended, why she looked at the columns of the mansion in the moonlight, turned her clearsighted ruthlessness against herself, began to cry with the back of her hand against her mouth, stepped blindly into the gallery well and crashed through the crystal chains of the chandelier to her death on the floor of the hall...
...Bernard Martin, 51, tall, businesslike skipper of the Benson Ford (carrying cargo for U.S. Steel because the Ford fleet has excess capacity) reported "ideal" weather on his trip from Duluth through the Soo Locks to Conneaut, Ohio, and though the Sault River buoys had already been taken in, bright moonlight made it easy for him to pick his way at night...