Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Punished until he could stand no more, he turned tail, while 500 airplanes, U.S. and Japanese, roared through the bright subtropical sun over his uneasy head. The U.S. aircraft had the edge. They burst through the Jap fighters again & again, rained bombs and aerial torpedoes at the surface craft...
...Navy needed more destroyers, more sub chasers, more blimps, more of other craft that could be used to convoy coastal shipping until the subs were knocked out. Until it got them it could only stand by and watch traffic be hamstrung by overnight dashes into sheltered harbors, by limited convoys, by other makeshifts that sadly slowed the pulse of United Nations commerce...
...would also be a problem-Vichy has no carriers in the Mediterranean. Finally, the United Nations could counter the use of the Vichyfrench fleet by using "demilitarized" French warships now in their hands: the 22,000-ton battleships Lorraine, Paris and Courbet, four cruisers, an unknown number of smaller craft...
Some 2,500 of Japan's planes were "first-line" combat craft, and many of these 2,500 were technically inferior to corresponding U.S. and British types. The other 2,500 were mostly slow, ancient, underpowered, underarmed crates, some of which did not even have retractable landing gear (see cut). Furthermore, Japan has had very heavy losses - some 1,100 planes, undoubtedly including a high proportion of her best...
...also seagoing patrol craft, but their range is short, and their prime function is to break up fleet attacks on bases such as the Panama Canal. The Navy last week permitted pictures to be printed of a fleet of 77-foot shallow-draft mosquito boats maneuvering off the Canal, slamming over the water at So m.p.h., armed with 50-caliber anti-aircraft guns and bearing in their powerful little bodies a pack of torpedoes. No submarine cares to surface in an area where the little motor torpedo boats operate on the alert, because a PT can run down any craft...