Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were nervous, nightmarish indications of coming events. British and Axis craft met and fought savagely in the Channel. In one night battle a German destroyer was sunk, in another the Canadians' famed destroyer Athabascan went down...
Barents Sea, made five low-level bomb and torpedo attacks, sank four transports and three escort craft, damaged two other transports, peppered a patrol ship and an E-boat...
Anzio: the Pawns. The little town leaned down to the harbor in a frozen cascade of wreckage. German shells still battered it and geysered around busy harbor craft shuttling between ships and shore. Soldiers lived in holes in the ground, making the best of a poor situation. Items...
From Italy and England, Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz's heavies blasted hardest at enemy airplane plants, but they also struck heavily at German fortifications on the coast, presumably in the spots where lighter craft had not done the job. Major General Lewis Brereton, boss of the Ninth (tactical) Air Force, which will give close support to the invasion, sent his mediums against the coast, airfields, railroad centers. Swarms of his fighter bombers also hacked from dawn to dusk, bored deeply inland...
...hide his light under a landing boat is burly, flamboyant Andrew Jackson Higgins Sr., president of Higgins Industries, Inc. of New Orleans. Among other things, Mr. Higgins produces a handsome, 21-ounce, 228-page magazine called the Eureka News Bulletin, to disseminate information about the beachhead craft he manufactures...