Word: roaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First the Dorniers, then dive-bombers roar down for the kill, and Captain Kinross' ship goes down with more than half her crew. Then, while the Captain and a few sailors, covered with fuel oil and sprayed with machine-gun bullets, cling precariously to a raft in the scummy water, the camera flashes back to tell the whole story of the ship...
Suicide of a Fleet. The first German armored force, having fought its way into the base, reached Milhaud dock where the battleship Strasbourg was lying. As German officers leaped from their cars and ran to the gangplanks, there was a flash and a roar and the great, 26,500-ton ship disintegrated before their eyes...
...Roar followed roar from all parts of the harbor as ship after ship exploded. German troops raced for the Vauban Basin where the battleship Dunkerque had been tied up for repairs since the British attack on Oran in July 1940. Near by were the cruisers Algérie, Foch and Jean de Vienne; their docks were wrecked with them. Earth and air trembled as the beautiful ships destroyed themselves...
Artillery barked more frequently from invisible positions on the mountain sides. Occasionally a machine gun rattled. No soldier or gun was visible, so carefully were positions and emplacements camouflaged. But the noise of firing swelled into a roar, echoing back & forth between the towering mountains. When it died away the Chinese, crouching in their hidden dugouts, could hear the sound of enemy trucks in the hills beyond rumbling up with fresh supplies. The Chinese who had held the front against ta-pai-tzu waited now for the next infestation in the valley...
Louder in the ears of the Italians was the ominous roar and rattle of the Allied military machine in North Africa. Virtually splitting their eardrums were the scream and crump of "blockbuster" bombs devastating the great industrial cities of Turin, Genoa, Milan...