Word: afterpart
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Inside is a strange, ungainly object: the central half of a submarine. Its afterpart stands clear and showing its skin, like a dissected whale, but its forward part is enclosed in a big tank of water. The building is filled with a rushing sound. Men come and go, consulting complicated instruments. A crew of engine-room men work inside the submarine, checking and nursing its machinery just as if it were cruising under...
...boat crash-dived, Howell saw the abandoned Nazi gun crew floundering in the sea. They soon had their submarine for company. Reported Howell: "Four depth charges exploded within a few feet of the stern and the last we saw of the U-boat was six feet of the afterpart sticking out almost vertically from the water...
...task force of cruisers and destroyers under Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan drove in on the Jap bombardment group. The U.S. flagship was the heavy cruiser San Francisco, the afterpart of whose superstructure had been messed up a bit by the crash of a Jap torpedo pilot the day before. Behind her steamed a column of heavy and light cruisers. Destroyers flanked the line of battle...
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