Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleet has a hard and dirty way ahead. It must at all costs maintain the two principal operations in Malaya and the Philippines. This means a hazardous and endless duty of convoying, supplying, transporting troops, a duty subject to raiding by U.S., British and Dutch submarines, planes and surface craft. The Japanese Fleet must also continue to harass the U.S. lines of communication. It must, above all, be wary of Allied offensive action, which might take many forms...
...considers the gun an ancillary weapon to be used mainly to create opportunities for decisive torpedo attack. The Japanese service torpedo is larger and more powerful than most (only equals: those fired by Britain's Nelson and Rodney), and Japan boasts an unusual number of small torpedo-bearing craft...
...lifeline ran through perilous territory. At Guam it passed through the heart of the Japanese Mandated Islands, fortified and fitted with plane-and-light-craft bases beyond the eyes of prying U.S. agents. Through its length the lifeline was vulnerable, as Navy men well knew, to harassing attacks from Japan...
...craft instruction for beginners will be given from December 28 to January 4 t Huntington Ravine and Tuckerman's Headwall, where the Club has a cabin, and parties under Maynard Miller '43 and Andrew Kaulman '43 will ascent various gullies. From January 28 to February 2 there will be ice bivouacs there...
...accelerated long-range program, which upped production to 100 ships annually, lowered the time limit to five years. Additional new programs call for 200 Liberty ships, 227 Lend-Lease vessels, 541 emergency and standard ships ("The bridge of ships"), 16 Great Lakes ore carriers, many a coastal craft. Soon to be included either in the Maritime Commission or the Navy program are the Sea Otters (TIME, Sept. 29), now undergoing rigorous tests in the Atlantic...