Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of them are "Liberty" or EC2 ships, stopgap craft, built to beat Germany. Their commercial life expectancy is only five to seven years-about a third that of normal merchant vessels. No shipowner gives a nautical damn about their lack of line. But he does complain about their waddling gait (ten to twelve knots), their ancient innards (old-style reciprocating engines), and most of all their appetite (estimated 40% more than the oil rations required by a turbine-driven ship...
...back, lifted herself a bit by the stern, like some great animal making a last stab at survival, then plunged. The men were heartbroken, not over the fact, inconsequential to most of them, that Britain's third carrier loss* left the Royal Navy only nine of these invaluable craft, but simply because their invulnerable, incomparable Ark was gone...
Today, as Rube Fleet works his 15-to-18-hour day, driving, berating, wheedling for speed, more speed, the saga of Consolidated craft grows & grows. It was a PBY that found the Bismarck, called up the warships for her destruction. A B-24 crossed the Atlantic from Newfoundland in the record time of seven hours, 30 minutes. This week the Air Forces' Major Alva Harvey is back in the U.S. after a routine flight around the world in a B24. From the shores of the British Isles (and probably in the Mediterranean), patrols of 24 hours and more...
...Navy officers in Honolulu chuckled mightily last week over a Japanese submarine's periscope upped furtively in Hawaiian waters. U.S. naval units had spotted the spying craft, could have sunk it at will. Consensus: The sub saw nothing of value...
...target of the title is a newly sprung-up clump of naval stores (oil, barges, etc.) spied out by reconnaissance craft at Frei-hausen, Germany. The camera follows the raid preparations: selection of the target by the Chief of the Bomber Command in his great hall papered with maps, cluttered with ceiling-high ladders, scale rulers, calipers, telephones; designation of one experienced squadron to make a low-level attack; instruction of the chosen crews at Millerton Airfield by the Wing Commander; arming, gassing and readying the bombers; and, when night comes, the takeoff...