Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more celebrations around the world. In Sydney, Australians attacked firemen and wrecked their trucks when the authorities tried to water down a victory riot. In the two minutes before U.P. discovered that somebody had played a dirty trick (see PRESS) the U.S. and Canadian radio had gone overboard, and thousands were roaring in the streets...
...came through without losing a man or a plane. Dixie proudly read Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman's "well done" over the loudspeaker, and congratulated his crew for its safety record. About that time a sailor who had dozed off on the struts under the No. 2 elevator fell overboard. Angry Dixie flushed brick-red at the blot on the Ti's record. When a destroyer picked up the sailor and returned him, Dixie got on the loud speaker again: "If anyone wants to see that smart young fellow, you can find him in the brig on bread...
...huge pillar of smoke billowed from the after half of the ship, where blazing gasoline and oil sloshed around. Crewmen manned hoses in the face of flames which scorched them to the limit of endurance. Part of the Marine detachment stayed in an ovenlike compartment, throwing bombs and rockets overboard. Tons of water, covered with burning gas and oil, were spilled off over the side in a sharp, skillful turn worked out by the navigator, Commander Charles J. Odend...
Fire engulfed the planes, shot up and swept the fantail, from which men jumped or were flicked overboard. On the hangar deck, now a roaring furnace, pilots blundered into still-whirling plane propellers, climbed frantically up the folded wings. Later some were found hanging like black, charred monkeys, caught in the overhead structure. The sailors lined up for breakfast died with empty bellies...
...minor Luftwaffe officers and five German naval officers and technicians; 4) some interesting metal dispatch boxes apparently full of papers and armament blueprints. Missing were the bodies of two unnamed Japanese who committed harakiri when surrender was ordered. Explained the Navy: the Germans tossed their dead allies overboard...