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...Hooked up to this same hand generator is another new signaling device designed to guide rescuers at night: a tiny searchlight, the size of a walnut, whose beam can be seen 65 miles away. Much more powerful than an ordinary flashlight, it has a single tungsten filament, produces a 1,500-candlepower beam, is worn on the head like a miner's lamp...
...searchlight bridge opens up now, and the wallowing hulk of the U-boat is clearly outlined in the glare. It shudders and rocks as the three-inch shells pour into it at the water line. Everybody on the cutter is yelling like a madman. Up forward you can see the Negro crew of number five gun, working like a machine, and grinning all the while. They throw the shells into the gun in a steady stream-the fastest gun crew on the cutter. And their lips move as they pour hot steel into the submarine. They're singing...
...nice if everything happened as punctually under the Tunisian Patton as it had under old Hurry-Up-and-Wait Patton at Fort Benning, or if Tunisia were as flat and dry just now as the western training reserve, the triangle from Desert Center, Calif., to Yuma, Ariz., to Searchlight...
Intelligent Gentlemen. Eckstein's personal observations poke searchlight beams into corners of the Japanese psyche...
Below the surface a Japanese submarine faltered. The patrol boat circled, dropped more charges. Hurt this time, the Jap came up. With its deck guns it blazed away furiously at its attacker. The patrol boat fired back, turned on her searchlight. The little New Zealander was only 150 feet long; nevertheless she pointed her bow at the sub and charged forward...