Word: battleships
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They nuzzled past more torpedo nets, pressed to within 200 yards of their quarry, the proud 45,000-odd-ton German super-battleship Tirpitz...
...Tiddlers' torpedoes had been well and truly aimed. As they struck home there was an enormous explosion; the majestic bulk of the battleship lifted several feet in the air. The Tirpitz sagged back into the water, buckled and pierced. She was no longer a fighting ship...
Other vital statistics in Forrestal's report revealed that the 45,000-ton Iowas carry 148 antiaircraft barrels, ranging from 20 mm. up to five-inch dual purpose guns. The first of the 35,000-ton North Carolina class, commissioned in 1941 after a two-decade battleship-building holiday, carried 50-some...
...happened to Bob Feller? Fans have wondered ever since the onetime pitcher ace of the Cleveland Indians disappeared into the silence of Navy sea duty 14 months ago. Last week, in a letter to the Chicago Daily News, a Seabee reported that Feller is a chief specialist on a battleship in the Pacific, that his pitching arm is still good. Against two strong service teams on unnamed islands, Feller struck out 15 in the first game, 18 in the second, and drove in three runs himself...
...conference, held on a battleship in mid-Atlantic, was called The Temporary Commission for the Organization of a Permanent World League of Cooperating Sovereign Nations Dedicated to the Preservation of International Peace, Prosperity and Happiness. Churchill was furious because the name wasn't in Basic English, but he turned up just the same. So did Badoglio, Umberto, Pétain, Giraud and Franco. Seven newspaper and radio men were allowed to cover the conference-from a launch alongside the battleship...