Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunk in addition to the cruiser were two cargo ships, a tanker and a trawler. These successes, accomplished "somewhere in Far Eastern waters" were independent of operations in the Solomon Islands, where American se and air forces racked up a smashing victory against a Jap armada last weekend and where Marines launched a new land offensive on Guadalcanal Island...
Lieutenant George G. Hedblom '37, former Varsity football star, was a member of the great air armada which bombed the German-occupied industrial town of Lille, in Northern France, it was reported in the Boston Herald recently. Hedblom, until recently a master and football coach at the St. George's School in Newport, R. I., was a back on the football teams...
...motley armada of transports, barges, converted yachts, tugs and a codfish schooner, heavily convoyed by naval craft, waddled up to one of the treeless humps which stick out of the northern sea, emptied men and materiel into lighters and landing boats. Under command of 41-year-old Florida-born Brigadier General Eugene M. Landrum they rolled shoreward through the surf. Caught by surprise or too harassed to do anything about it, the Japanese did not raise a finger. Ten days later U.S. engineers had built an airdrome big enough to accommodate air transports. Fighting planes were taking off from...
...came fast on the heels of the Navy's announcement that the first phase of the battle for the Solomons, had been successfully completed. Down from the North, probably from Japan's great naval base on Truk Island (see map on opposite page), swept a great Japanese armada of battleships and carriers, cruisers and transports...
From the north the Jap launched an air armada against Midway. Not a plane was on the ground when he got there. The Marines, in stubby Grumman Wildcats, met him over the shore. With the help of anti-aircraft they knocked down 40 planes in the most concentrated dogfight U.S. airmen had ever seen...