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...ship was gone in a moonslick littered with wreckage. The raider made for a cruiser, splashed three bombs into the water not a hundred feet from her, saw them hurtle to her side, watched her heel over in a spreading pool of oil after the bombs burst. A searchlight beam burst from the shore, probed high in the sky. A few A.A. guns chattered. But the Fortress was clean away. Climbing to 5,000, she dropped her last bombs on a seaplane tender in the harbor's heart and streaked for home, while her crew made to one another...
...Outlined were five long, hard "official pre-induction" courses in electricity, radio, shop work, machines and automotive mechanics for high-school boys and older night students. The 90-hour course in electricity, for example, would prepare students for 151 specialized Army jobs such as telegrapher, field lineman, bombsight mechanic, searchlight operator...
...There were some big naval guns exploding shells near by with a loud whoosh and bouncing my kite up and down. When we unloaded everything, my crew started tossing out whiskey bottles with sticks in their necks, screamers which sound hellishly like big bombs and make searchlight crews scramble for cover. On the way home we could still see the fires 150 miles away. I was glad that night I was one of the people above and not one below...
Some Pacific Coast beaches are strung with barbed wire, studded with anti-aircraft batteries, coast artillery, searchlight crews. On neither coast are lights allowed in beach houses or on cars driving toward the oceans...
Steer the ship from its various steering stations, take soundings with lead lines, sounding machine, and rathemeter, use a polars, and navigation rangeunder, obtain and plot bearings. Operate signals control apparatus and make emergency signals from the bridge, operate searchlights, use the anemometer, tide and current tables and use and correct sailing charts and sailing directions. Take care of the chronometer, identify stars, take sun and star sights and determine ship's position. Use dead reckoning radio bearings and soundings as navigational aids, and interpret weather signals. Send and receive international Code by blinker, searchlight and semaphore, and identify...