2:45
There was coy conversation , while the civilian telephone-service suffered . Then Sergeant Walpole went back to his post of duty with a date for the evening . He never kept that date , as it turned out . The rural Central was dead an hour after the first and only Wabbly landed , and as everybody knows , that happened at 2:45 . * * * * * But Sergeant Walpole had no premonitions as he went back to his hammock on the porch . This was Post Number Fourteen , Sixth Area , Eastern Coast Observation Force . There was a war on , to be sure .