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Rain and darkness made an ideal cloak. In the hour before dawn the little vessel from Italy ran in close to the rocky Dalmatian coast and dropped its solitary passenger. Daniel De Luce, Associated Press correspondent, climbed into the wet woods without a sound, felt his way to the appointed rendezvous...
...holes in her wings, tail and fuselage, and one of her crew wounded. From air photographs it was clear that the U-boats were organized in fleets, prepared to fight underwater or on the surface. One submarine had at least ten deck guns, evidently stood by as an antiaircraft vessel while others concentrated on surface ships...
...December 1920, while singing L'Elisir d'Amore at the Brooklyn Academy, a blood vessel broke in Caruso's throat. A seasoned trouper, he insisted on going on with the show. While stagehands and fellow singers stood in the wings passing handkerchiefs and towels, he finished the first act though bleeding profusely from the mouth. The audience, noticing that something was wrong, demanded that he stop...
...only other vessel of the group able to navigate by itself on the high seas, is 155 ft. long and can carry about 200 infantrymen in an attack. Its crew and command are similar to those of the LST; officers and men on both develop great esprit de corps, become inordinately fond of their strange craft, and look with pained incredulity on finical civilians who consider the ships something less than yare and yachtlike...
...carries a crew of four and a medium tank. As an intermediate step between this small boat and the ocean-going LST, the Navy designed a 100-ft. LCT (Landing Craft, Tank), which can be carried to zones of operation on the deck of an LST or a cargo vessel...