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...left, thus saving many paratroopers ahead. As bodies banged against the plane-one smashed into a propeller, one was almost decapitated by the wing, one broke the glass of Clark's windshield with a great crash-he did not forget the jumpers hooked up to the static lines in the fuselage. He set off the emergency bell, warning them of imminent danger, both the pilot and the copilot, Lieut. Stanley Robert McCaig of Tieton, Wash., were still in their seats when the plane...
...pusher" for a stick of 20 paratroopers on the left side of the plane. He was last in line, and it was his duty to quarterback the jump. Luckily, all the jumpers in the plane had already "stood up and hooked up" (i.e., fastened their parachutes to the static lines in the plane). When Sluss heard the windshield break with a sound "like two cars hitting," he wasted no time. Shouting, pushing, struggling uphill as the bucking, lurching plane headed down, he got his men out and managed to jump safely himself. Jumpers on the right side of the plane...
...medical officer, had hooked up with jumpers on the right side of the plane when a red light flashed the five-minute warning earlier in the flight. But as the plane pitched in the backwash of planes ahead, he felt airsick, reached up, unhooked his chute from the static line and sat down. His chute or pack caught in the bucket seat. He sat, struggling but immovable, as the abandon-ship bell shrilled, as his fellow jumpers tumbled out, and as the plane crashed...
Sergeant Jessie Arrington, a husky (6 ft. 2 in., 190 Ibs.) Negro paratrooper from Newport News, Va., was aboard the plane to check the static line and equipment and did not intend to jump. He stayed behind "yelling to everybody we had the long bell" until all jumpers were clear. When he looked out the door, he saw that the plane was only 150 feet from the earth. He was wearing a chute with a hand-operated ripcord. "I looked at the ground and I knew there was no one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two, one-thousand-three-that...
According to the president, the writer of the Gospel was showing how Jesus meant to put new life, symbolized by the wine, into the formalized and static religion of his time, symbolized by the water...