Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane to a Texas football game drew fire from the Pentagon (TIME, Dec. 12), called off a similar mission he had scheduled for New Year's Eve. Determined to take in the "Gator" Bowl game in Jacksonville, Fla., Kissin' Jim had planned to launch a grandiose air armada on the pretext of "inspectin' " the runways at a Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead to forgo the aerial junket in favor of rolling down the road a piece in Montgomery for the annual Blue-Gray (North v. South) Bowl game. Drawled Kissin...
...planes aboard, the Akagi exploded and burned. So did two sister carriers, the Kaga and Soryu (Hiryu, the fourth, survived to be wrecked by an evening raid). In two minutes the whole course of the Pacific war changed. That night, its air striking power destroyed, the Japanese invasion armada turned in "emptiness, cheerlessness and chagrin" and limped for home. (The U.S. Navy lost the Yorktown, one of the three carriers that it was able to muster for the great battle...
...strongest, and around 1574 it began to appear on British ships, sometimes with four red stripes, and sometimes with the red cross of St. George in the canton (the upper corner next to the staff). Contemporary views show that it was carried by some ships against the Spanish Armada in 1588. In time it was adopted by both the British and Dutch East India Companies...
...once proud Spanish navy lost its Armada in 1588, and any other pretensions to glory in 1898, when it was soundly beaten by the U.S. Spanish sea power is, in fact, mostly a collection of ancient junk, with only one big ship, the 18-year-old, 10,670-ton cruiser Canarias. Franco's government does have, however, eleven destroyers less than five years old, plus eight frigates, six new corvettes and 15 good minesweepers. It also has 1,500 miles of coastline. Last week, as part of its program of building up bases in Spain, the U.S. agreed...
Present theory and practice of air tactics do not call for bunching bombers in fleets, since one plane armed with an H-bomb is plenty for any target. But the capability to destroy an air armada, perhaps of airborne troops, with a missile or two might come in handy...