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...Emily Blachman, who runs the boarding house, and her husband Jim. Emily (engagingly played by Mary Philips) is a bohemianized F.F.V., bighearted, bossy, shrewd, who keeps a roof over her family while the blustering, big-shot Jim (well played by Rhys Williams) tries for the sky. A familiar rudder-& -sails combination, the Blachmans ship a lot of water, ride put a lot of domestic storms...
...looked over the side. Just below the gunner was a hole 9 ft. by 3. At the moment of the first attack a torpedo had passed clean through the Who, Me?'s bow. Below decks one of the crew found a torpedo's two-foot fin and rudder of fine stainless steel -it had sheered off the toilet seat from the crew's "head" and lodged in the crew's quarters...
...northern tip of Jutland. Out of a cloud, like a falcon striking at a swan, came a Nazi pursuit ship, the machine-gun muzzles along its black wings blinking like baleful orange-red eyes. The Swedish pilot sobbed a prayer or a curse, threw the wheel over, kicked his rudder pedals, fought to lose altitude and get down near the water without pulling the wings off. The Nazi pilot took his time, turned smoothly to follow the clumsy transport's evasive action, made another pass, and another. For ten nightmarish minutes the unequal struggle went on. The Gripen almost...
...when he joined the Army Air Forces last year, the handsome, taciturn pilot flew on his first mission eight weeks ago, joined the first U.S. shuttle raid on Germany, flew safely to Africa over 300 miles of hot enemy territory with 75 flak holes in his ship and his rudder control shot away...
...Right rudder 20°," ordered the captain for relay to the helmsman. Over a speaking tube came the Iowa-sharp voice of John ("Shanghai") Frajman, Machinist's Mate 2nd Class: "Engines making one-oh-two revolutions...