Word: whaleboat
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Sends the whaleboat so high...
With three other officers, Physician Sams was taken in a Navy whaleboat one night to a point off the North Korean coast. The four paddled through the surf in a rubber raft, made their way across a mine-planted beach to a village, where General Sams learned from "contacts" that the Reds were suffering instead from an epidemic of hemorrhagic smallpox. (If he had brought back positive evidence of the plague, all U.N. troops would have been vaccinated.) Last week, for his "extraordinary heroism," General Sams received the D.S.C...
...four marines, four bluejackets and two officers-checked their weapons and adjusted packs crammed with TNT. Some carried Tommy guns, others carbines. Each man had a knife dangling on his pistol belt. A few wore sneakers. The men shifted their feet uneasily as they watched a small whaleboat being lowered into the water...
Commander Porter said: "Well, this is it. Let's go over the side." As the whaleboat pushed off for shore its engine sounded loud and the men instinctively bent low; each reasoned that it might lessen his chance of being seen in the inky blackness. Sixty yards offshore a white headlight seemed to spot the whaleboat for a minute. Then it shifted back inland. All hands flattened in the bottom of the boat. Then they heard the rumble of a freight train heading toward the tunnel that was their target for the night...
...into the railroad bed. When their shovels rang too loudly they went down on their knees and finished digging with their hands. Primer cord connected two charges so they would explode as one, and caps were taped to both rails. Then word was passed to head back for the whaleboat...