Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patently, since his only hope of winning the war is to choke the Allies' flow of supplies, Hitler was throwing his strength and all his ingenuity into his U-boat campaign. South Africa reported huge German craft clustered thickly around Portuguese Lourengo Marques, sinking Allied ships with a frequency that shook South African morale. From Stockholm came a German writer's story of a new wrinkle: submersible barges towed by cargo-carrying subs to refuel and supply U-boats far from home...
WASHINGTON--The U. S. Aircraft Carrier Hornet went down swinging, her planes scoring hits on 12 Jap warships and three auxillaries, sinking four transports and destroying at least 60 Jap planes in five fierce months of fighting before she perished Oct. 26, an official Navy obituary of the gallant craft revealed tonight...
...Japs also need an intermediate anchorage where small vessels-the craft of infiltration by sea-can pause before a night sneak to Guadal. Last week U.S. planes hunted down a new Jap hideaway in the New Georgia group. Wickham Anchorage lies hidden behind a long, narrow, palmy, hook-shaped island. It is only 120 miles from the main Jap positions on Guadal. Though the approaches are tricky, good-sized vessels can hide there. Last week a group of Jap cargo ships did. U.S. dive-bombers found them and in two attacks sank four. They also found quite a few landing...
...Dual-rotation propellers (a double set of blades whirling in opposite directions) have withstood terrific tests, proved they will pay dividends on craft flying more than 350 m.p.h., help provide a better plane for maneuvering and accurate firing. >The Sikorsky-developed helicopter, with horizontally rotating blades overhead and small vertical blades on the tail, has reached the stage where its designer prophesies great value as an anti-submarine device, in liaison work and sea rescues. It can hang stationary in the air, fly backward, drop vertically, land on a dime. >The batlike Flying Wing, with fuselage and wings molded into...
...acre tract, built a small shipyard of secondhand materials, rounded up a working force, purchased supplies and parts and launched the first subchaser. The Navy promptly gave the Browns more subchaser orders plus a contract for a medium-sized fleet of destroyer escorts-many-gunned convoy and anti-submarine craft which cost some $5,000,000. For this job the Browns designed and built a $6,000,000 shipyard, fitted it with timesaving devices like "swinging scaffolds" (which move as ship construction progresses) and prefabrication shops...