Word: rafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Seaman Doil Carpenter, of Pasadena (a Monaghan man): "I was at No. 3 gun, aft, when she went down. . . . The suction pulled me under, and I was out cold when I came back up, but a cook pulled me aboard a raft. He died the night before they picked us up, from drinking salt water. Every time a wave would hit the raft, some more men would be missing...
Double Jeopardy. Sharks played around most of the rafts constantly, yet three men who had no raft, and were kept afloat only by life jackets, never saw a shark. These three, from the Spence, found themselves drifting separately and tied themselves together around a life ring. All had suffered strange hallucinations: the sight of land, a Jap girl bringing water, rescue by a Russian submarine, relieving the gun watch...
...join a fleet of over 1,000 ships engaged in the landings, in South France. LST 282, the one to which the lieutenant was assigned, was destined to be the only ship sunk in the entire action. After 20 minutes in the water, the men on the life raft were picked up by the crew of one of the other Allied vessels in the D-day engagement...
...Diego, I Love You (Universal), a cheerfully goofy little picture about a bad inventor who made good, is almost as funny as it is foolish. Much of it involves the efforts of lush Louise Allbritton to sell Father Edward Everett Horton's improved life-raft to Executive Jon Hall, "the most girl-shy millionaire in Who's Who." In the course of convincing him that she loves him for himself alone, she leads Mr. Hall through some unusually footloose footage. She gets him ensnarled in a brawl in a low-life barbershop which specializes in reconditioning shiners...
Aside from Mr. Keaton and the delectable bears, San Diego's level is well indicated by the bitter moment in which Millionaire Hall informs Miss Allbritton that of her father's raft the only part which survived testing was the chewing-gum with which she had patched it; or Eric Blore's unctuous self-introduction to his new employer: "You may call me Nelson." To which Mr. Horton earnestly replies, in the line-of-the-month...