Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philippine time when a small flight of Japanese planes pierced the defenses of "Taffy 3," a task unit of U.S. escort carriers east of Leyte. One nosed over into a power dive. As he held his target in sight, the pilot knew every second of the way that he was headed for death. Yet he kept going until he crashed and died amid fire and explosion in the side of the carrier St. Lo. The St. Lo sank. Over a 130-mile front, other Japanese planes dived against her sister carriers. That night, Oct. 25, 1944, Imperial Headquarters in Tokyo...
...From Reserve Ensign Susumu Kaijitsu, who waited suspenseful weeks before his number came up: "My daily activities are quite ordinary. My greatest concern is not about death, but rather of how I can be sure of sinking an enemy carrier . . . Please watch for the results of my meager effort. If they prove good, think kindly of me and consider it my good fortune . . . Most important of all, do not weep...
...While advocates of an all-out nuclear plane program envision the plane as some kind of perpetual motion aerial weapons carrier hovering on the fringes of enemy territory, this concept is impractical in the days of heat-seeking defensive missiles such as Sidewinder because of the high temperature of a nuclear power plant. "It would," said one Washington wag, "just about suck the missiles off their assembly lines into the exhaust stacks...
...Three months ago Cheng Ch'i's two-story headquarters in downtown Quemoy City took a direct hit, but the paper came out next day right on schedule. Subscribers on the outlying islands-Little Quemoy, Tatan and Erhtan-must now depend on irregular deliveries by carrier frogmen. On Quemoy proper, delivery boys peddle the paper by jeep and bicycle and on foot, generally get the job done by midmorning despite the every-other-day bombardment. Casualties to date: one carrier boy slightly injured by shrapnel, one decommissioned jeep...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The second half of a two-part documentary on dope addiction focuses on the attempts made to help one young monkey carrier kick the habit...