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Still the assault boats streamed toward shore. Kilted commandos, festooned with assorted demolition charges, fanned out across the bulky concrete submarine pens. A refitted American destroyer-the old four-stacker Buchanan-crammed with explosive until it was a vast time bomb, rammed the main gate of Normandie dock, only Atlantic dry dock capable of handling the great German battleship Tirpitz. Of the 611-man assault team, only 442 survived. But St. Nazaire was shattered by blasts that went off at unexpected intervals for the next 2½ days. Normandie dock could not be repaired for the next ten years...
...western Pennsylvania; no less an authority than George Washington pronounced Monongahela rye "excellent,'' etc. But what gives the book its special tang is Pilot Bissell's own experiences on the old Mon. When he reported for duty on the Coal Queen, he saw a dirty one-stacker, "a piece of marine junk." That was winter time, and he had to be persuaded not to take the first train back to the Midwest. Came spring and Pilot Bissell thought: "For me to be drawing wages for piloting a towboat under these conditions. why, that's just like...
...Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders...
...Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation...
...last week he marshaled his lady, his three children (Rose Maureen, 13, Shane William, 10, Brian James, 6) a nanny (nurse), an aide-de-camp, a valet, a maid, a secretary, a lady in waiting, three dogs, 28 trunks and suitcases onto the four-stacker Aquitania in Southampton (see cut), and in a grey drizzle set sail for Halifax...