Word: slid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anti-aircraft guns curtained the sky just above the ships, and between them and the beach, with concentrated fire. Above this steel ceiling, observation and pursuit planes ranged. Below, from cannily de signed motherships, barges laden with troops and equipment slid into the sea, ready to go as soon as they hit water. These barges varied in type. Some were twin-keeled open boats, carrying no to 120 armed men. The barges had bow flaps which became runways for light artillery and tanks, with V-shaped hulls to deflect enemy fire. One type of barge had an airplane propeller instead...
Mangled and burned were Miss Lombard, the other three civilian passengers, the 15 Army flyers, the crew of three. The transport had smacked straight into the mountain's steep wall, only 200 feet below the peak, then had slid, broken, into a ravine. For yards around, the scattered pine trees were scarred, the snow melted clean away. Why the plane had crashed, nobody yet knew...
...heeling over of the ship flung me sliding down the starboard side into the sea. Hundreds of officers and seamen plunged into the water with me. Anderson had reached the starboard railing a little to the right of me. I heard him shout something to an officer as I slid into the sea. I never saw him again...
...Army tank, nosing across a creek near Fort Knox, Ky. on a slithery pontoon bridge, slid off into water up to its turret top. That annoying accident suggested to Lieut. Colonel Thomas Henry Stanley (16th Engineers) that it was about time the Army developed a new kind of pontoon bridge for mechanized warfare. The old bridge of planks on boats had not been radically changed since the Civil War, although as early as 1846 the U.S. Army was experimenting with rubber pontoons...
...boat stations on the weather deck it was obvious that the motor lifeboats could never be launched because of the heavy list. A destroyer worked up under the overhanging lee deck. Ropes shot up and were made fast. The men, some in overalls, some in underwear, slid down like monkeys to the destroyer's fo'c'sle deck...