Word: abeam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reach the designated bearing was piloted by a flight sergeant from flattened Coventry and navigated by a sergeant from peaceful Saskatchewan. The pair saw the streamlined Panzer ship, closely screened by one destroyer to the fore and two on each flank. The destroyers on the flanks hung close abeam-so close that putting a torpedo home would not be easy...