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got really scared. Pond remembered.
He was still minus his shirt, dressed only in dungarees and a flat steel helmet. “It was bitter cold, we'd had nothing to eat. The fire in the navy yard was so bright you could read by it five miles out at sea.”
Heading back toward Pearl, men on the Chew could see anti-aircraft fire. The shots were aimed at
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