Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against these losses, the U.S. balanced its own and found the balance in its favor. Besides the Arizona it has lost a cruiser (Houston), seven destroyers, three submarines, a few auxiliary craft. Inferior in tonnage and gunpower when the war began, sure to be outbuilt from now on, the Japanese were losing at a rate they could ill afford. But it was still a rate the U.S. Navy must sharply increase before the Japanese Navy is crippled...
...invited to the ball, but who proved to be the belles when they arrived. (Of the 456 sub chasers built in the U.S. in the last war, not a single one was sunk by enemy submarines, whereas the Cinderellas had the highest record of sub sinkings of any surface craft...
...sight. Before 9 o'clock the Japs were pretty well silenced, and the survivors sat among the smoking shambles of a promising advance base. The Japs had lost three four-motored seaplanes, two patrol boats, some dredges and fuel barges, a few prisoners picked up from sunken craft. U.S. loss: one plane...
...mouse in the morning oatmeal) the biggest thing that has happened to fighting-ship design is the airplane. Before the epochal crippling of the Bismarck by aerial torpedo, and the crashing success of unsupported aircraft in sinking the Prince of Wales and Repulse, designers of battlewagons and smaller craft had given only half an eye to defense against the new weapon on the seas. Those demonstrations ended all arguments, basically altered ship design...
Pleased as anyone at the Air Forces' recognition of P-47's good qualities was the Thunderbolt's father, a quiet, wiry onetime Russian Army artillerist named Alexander Kartveli. In the great group effort of aviation design, many a man who has put new craft in the air has escaped public attention. One such is 45-year-old Designer Kartveli...