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doc#146 | bending forward over the horn, he urged | his | mount down the meandering draw. He had |
doc#146 | somewhere behind. He had been sighted, and | his | attacker pumping shot after shot. A shot |
doc#146 | went wild before Cobb felt something tug at | his | foot. A slug had torn half of his stirrup |
doc#146 | tug at his foot. A slug had torn half of | his | stirrup-guard away. A second twitched his |
doc#146 | his stirrup-guard away. A second twitched | his | shirtsleeve, and he felt a brief burn on |
doc#146 | shirtsleeve, and he felt a brief burn on | his | upper arm. Another snarled close overhead |
doc#146 | </p><p> At the first shot Russ had hurled | his | mount to the left toward the side of the |
doc#147 | . Anything the enemy flew or floated was | his | target. Fleischman with eight was to patrol |
doc#147 | was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with | his | main task to get any kamikaze before they |
doc#147 | it as he stood on the wing and waited for | his | pilot. Greg climbed into the cockpit feeling |
doc#147 | if he had never been in one before. But | his | hands and those of Donovan moved automatically |
doc#147 | jumped off the wing. The expression was | his | trade-mark, his open sesame to good luck |
doc#147 | wing. The expression was his trade-mark, | his | open sesame to good luck, and his prayer |
doc#147 | -mark, his open sesame to good luck, and | his | prayer that pilot and plane would always |
doc#147 | out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep | his | back to the strip. He wondered where the |
doc#147 | it was bad luck for a crew chief to watch | his | plane take off on a combat mission. Yet |
doc#147 | strip, and one by one the seven members of | his | flight fell in behind him. The dark brown |
doc#147 | and muddied gray. Water splashed against | his | windshield as he led the flight in and |
doc#147 | returned. </p><p> Greg pushed the radio button on | his | throttle. "Todman, let's try to go under |
doc#147 | Sweeney", Todman called back, and pulled | his | four in and slightly above Greg. </p><p> |