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Page 165
Three on one side , then a breath - catching moment waiting for the next to hit the crowded decks or scream through the rigging , but , by the mercy of Providence , they hit the sea thirty yards beyond us . We had several signals from ...
Three on one side , then a breath - catching moment waiting for the next to hit the crowded decks or scream through the rigging , but , by the mercy of Providence , they hit the sea thirty yards beyond us . We had several signals from ...
Page 187
The routine for the rear - gunner in such a watery emergency is that he should swing his turret to a definite side so that he can get out on the tailplane quickly . The reason for this is that by the rudder there is a second and outside ...
The routine for the rear - gunner in such a watery emergency is that he should swing his turret to a definite side so that he can get out on the tailplane quickly . The reason for this is that by the rudder there is a second and outside ...
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He was in a continual state of suspicion of all sorts of imagined terrors approaching from his blind side , and was always shying away to the off or swinging bodily round to give the near side hedge a thorough scrutiny with his sound ...
He was in a continual state of suspicion of all sorts of imagined terrors approaching from his blind side , and was always shying away to the off or swinging bodily round to give the near side hedge a thorough scrutiny with his sound ...
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