Word: commando
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their periscopes, of torpedoing a new Jap carrier as it slid down the ways, of receiving as many as 400 and 500 depth charges. Subs became the work horses of the fleet: they rescued 504 downed flyers, carried high-priority cargo and VIPs, charted enemy beaches before invasions, staged commando raids, acted as radio and weather stations for the Air Force. Threading their way through plodding Jap convoys, sub skippers set up targets at night on radarscopes. Then they surfaced and steamed through the panicked convoys, shotgunning torpedoes right & left...
Died. Admiral Count Luigi Rizzo di Grado, 63, one of Italy's most renowned naval heroes of World War I (only holder of two Medaglie d'Oro, highest Italian war decoration); of a lung ailment; in Rome. In December 1917, Rizzo and a small commando force sneaked into Trieste's harbor, cut the torpedo nets, then returned with small boats to sink Austria's battleship Wien, next year equaled the feat by torpedoing the Szent-Istvan...
During World War II, Lieut. Per Edvard Danielsen's swashbuckling sea-raids against the Nazis made him something of a national hero. In 1941, as skipper of a motor torpedo boat, he helped strike one of the first blows against the Quisling government, in a Commando raid from Britain against Norway's Nazi-occupied island base of Maaloy...
Some 40,000 Red soldiers launched their attack on a broad front along the Day River, a southern outlet of the big Red River. They stormed French blockhouses, surrounded French outposts. Fearing a major Communist offensive, the French rushed patrols and commando units from other parts of the delta to block the Communists. For 24 hours both sides fought bitterly; then the Communists were driven off. But their tactical plan went on working; next day the French found that, while they were concentrating on the battle, Communist rice-gathering bands had penetrated 20 miles into the delta. The French settled...
...Harvard testers believe that their technique can be adapted to measure a man's aptitude for dangerous, "stressful" assignments of many kinds, e.g., commando duty. Men who become exhausted after a rugged route march, but without a proportionate eosinophil drop, would be eliminated as dangerously hormone poor...