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...barely above the sea, in a pea-soup fog. The pilot decided that if the weather was too thick for Hannibal it was too thick for a PBY, too. He landed. As the plane rippled to a stop, Hannibal took off, soared to a full-stall landing, and swam off into...
...South Dakota are pretty proud of the men who, as boys, learned the meaning of freedom from the spaciousness of their own state-these sons of the prairie who played Indian, swam in the "cricks," tramped the fields, and hunted for ducks and pheasants as soon as they were strong enough to hold...
Dave Barnes reversed the 220 order in the 440 event, besting George Christman by a few strokes in 5:10.4. And the Crimson swimmers, using Perry Stearns, Ozzie Morton, Don Perry, and the aforementioned Eusden, won the 400-yard relay by a country mile. Somebody named Gossner swam the anchor leg for Brown, but he didn't help much...
...Sosnovkin therefore decided to build his bridge backwards from the German side, beginning it in the shelter of the high bank. On a night when clouds hid the moon and snow shrouded the river, the strongest swimmers crossed with the foundation stones in stretchers and in their tunics. Others swam with the logs. Blue-black with cold, praying that the ice along the bank would not crack and betray them by the sound, they laid the first sections in utter silence. Chest-deep in the waters near the bank, they were cut, bloodied and sometimes knocked off their feet...
...Francisco, in running the gantlet, had crippled the Jap battleship, but a 14-in. salvo found the cruiser's bridge and killed Admiral Callaghan and Captain Cassin Young (who when blown into the water off the Arizona at Pearl Harbor swam back to his ship and resumed the fight). It knocked out Lieut. Commander Bruce McCandless, 31, third in command on the bridge at the time. When McCandless came to, he saw that he was "Sopus"—Navy for senior officer present. It was up to him to get the ship out. He got to his feet, took command...