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...Balance. A week later Roen and his crew of 50 had a bad scare. An airline kinked; air began to flow unevenly. The starboard decks burst out of the water, and the hulk listed dangerously. Months of body-breaking labor hung in the balance. A fast-thinking crew member picked up a shotgun, blasted the air hose. Gently the ship settled back into the water, to be brought up again slowly and on an even keel...
...Good." As the wounded were brought in from portside and starboard gangways Dr. Beck examined them briefly and said, "Medical One," "Medical Two," "Orthopedic." It was almost mechanical. One marine had been shot through the throat. A few minutes after he had been assigned to a ward another doctor came back and reported to Dr. Beck, "He got it through the larynx and he is spitting some blood, but there is no paralysis. He can even talk. God is good...
Later the Mustang proved itself a magnificent low-level strafer and locomotive buster. It was fast, agile and an "honest" aircraft (i.e., with no eccentric handling traits). One P-51 set a record for ruggedness when it flew home with a yard of starboard wing shot off, the port wing half buckled and the fuselage bent and torn from collision with a tree. The U.S. noted all this and brought out its own slightly modified version of the plane as the A36 Invader, which did mighty work as a dive and glide bomber and ground-support plane in Sicily...
...sinking our squawkbox sounded: 'Jap snooper is closing.' One cruiser opened fire with two destroyers joining. ... At 9:50 p.m. the squawkbox said: 'A group of planes is closing. They are dropping float lights. Another group is off our starboard bow, now closing...
...task force that had mauled Wake Island on Oct. 5 and 6 steamed back to its base. From a carrier's bridge TIME and LIFE Correspondent Robert Sherrod surveyed the scene: "I can see a sight that would gladden the hearts of all Americans. To the starboard there is another carrier. For miles beyond are cruisers and destroyers. On the port side are several carriers, and their protecting cruisers stretch all the way to the horizon. We cannot see them, but there are still other warships over the horizon. It is the greatest carrier task force ever assembled, bearing...