Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went happily down Broadway, repeating in every theater, the Rialto, the Tower, Loew's. Others stopped streetcars, pulled off zooters, Mexicans or just dark-complexioned males. On went the mob, ripping pants, beating the young civilians, into the Arcade, the Roxy, the Cameo, the Broadway, the Central and the New Million Dollar theaters. The mood of officialdom (the Shore Patrol, the Military Police, the city police, the sheriff's office) seemed complaisant...
...Long Retreat. Frank Kurtz lost his plane and his entire crew. From the control tower of the field, later on, he watched Colin Kelly die. Kurtz heard a plane coming in, looked up at the low-hanging clouds. Eight parachutes dropped from them; then he saw "a dark object go hurtling into the ground." That was Kelly, who stuck with the ship until it was too late for his own chute to open...
...Mile Field is a barren place. Its main building is a grass-roofed, gravel-floored operations hut, where crews are briefed before their combat missions and interviewed when they return. A stilt-legged control tower stands near the upper end, from which take-off and landing signals are blinked to the bomber crews. There are no hangars; planes are serviced, bombed up and repaired in revetments around the field, built up with 20-ft. walls as a protection against bomb blasts. Beyond the flight strip, on both sides, are low, scrub-covered hills...
...Spencer was turning. The port guns ceased. The sub was dead ahead, so close it could be rammed. But there was no need to ram when it could be smashed with gunfire. The starboard guns took up the battle, blazing at close range. The U-boat's conning tower by now was badly smashed. A lone man, his back toward the Spencer, clung desperately to the conning tower as though being crucified. A shell hit him squarely in the back. He crumpled, slumping down over two other corpses on the narrow deck...
...Spencer passed beyond the submarine, firing slackened. A patch of water was alive with struggling figures, black dots surrounded by bright orange life-jackets, bobbing and pitching in the waves. The sub's conning tower was dented and broken. No life could be seen aboard. Waves washed over her decks. She was done...