| A bomb exploded directly beneath the sponson, where the dead body had fallen. |
| There he lay, along one side of the tank between the engine and the sponson. |
| The crew chief was underneath the starboard sponson, trying to unseat the landing-gear pin, when my copilot released the brakes. |
| The battery door is on the aft end of the sponson that houses the port main landing gear. |
| The next thing I remember was someone on another sponson throwing me a life ring, which landed about five feet from the hull of the ship. |
| The three davits for the deployment of landing craft and the patrol boat are relocated to a sponson installed on the port side of the ship instead of on the flight deck. |
