Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this kind of warfare, submarines were the only craft that could hope to avoid the Caribbean's watchful air patrols. Where they were based, no one but the enemy yet knew. French bases were suspiciously near: Dakar, 3,150 miles; German-occupied Brest, 4,300 miles from the Caribbean. Small, unguarded islands off Central America might have been fitted out as refueling bases...
...Third on Dr. van Mook's list is naval reinforcement. The Dutch asked only for light naval craft: destroyers, light cruisers and submarines. Any newsreader could note the effectiveness of the small U.S. Asiatic Fleet (with its supporting aircraft) in blasting Japanese convoys in the Strait of Macassar. He could note, too, the depressing fact that the Jap first approached vital Amboina with a piddling naval escort, got little or no naval opposition. Three cruisers, a dozen destroyers, even one aircraft carrier, would bolster U.S. and Dutch naval strength in the Indies, would help to stop the Jap short...
...searchlights that had fingered the shoreline, alert for infiltration. From then until late moonrise the enemy landed secretly and crept silently through shoreline marshes, headed for the Singapore end of the Causeway. They came in increasing numbers, careless of casualties. Machine gun bullets struck sparks on steel landing craft the Japs were using to cross from Johore. The defending troops fell back and fell back again...
Because the C.P.T. flying field falls within the restricted area extending the length of the Atlantic Coast and 30 miles inland, the permission to continue was granted conditionally. If civilian spotters attempting to account for all planes, are bewildered by these craft, the Harvard unit will have to move its center of activity inland to distant Haverhill...
...boldly tried to stem the Japanese onrush. His best story by far was that of Dr. S. C. Moulthan, who loaded a motorcycle sidecar with guncotton, scooted off to the water front, there blew up two large ships to block Hong Kong harbor and scuttled 30 to 40 smaller craft...