Word: afterpart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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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