Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history's fourth explosion of nature's fissionable elements, this time a precise, scientific evaluation of the bomb's destructive force applied to naval surface craft riding "dead duck" at close anchorage, three ships went down, a fourth was missing and 32 others were scorched, set afire or twisted in hull or superstructure...
...dawn darkness last week, 4,000 G.I.s cordoned off a 45-mile stretch of the Danube in U.S.-occupied Bavaria, rounded up 397 river craft. Tight-jawed G.I.s routed out sleeping sailors and their women, led them shivering on deck with the command, in G.I. German: "Snell-like" (hurry up). One fuzz-cheeked soldier who found a rust-covered fowling piece dashed topside, tripped, fell in the river in the best Keystone comedy manner...
Early in 1942, the Army fitted some of its coastal minefields with underwater microphones. Its purpose: to listen for enemy craft, and blow them sky-high by exploding appropriate mines. For a while the minefields were quiet. Then, with spring, the microphones under an empty sea picked up an "awful racket." To some it sounded like a pneumatic drill, to others like laden freighters coming up the channel...
...Slaughter. Newfoundland swilers are old hands at blasting and nudging their craft clear into the whelping ground. There the barrel man, high in the crow's-nest, spots the whitecoats. The ship runs alongside, the men grab a gaff (a pole with a steel hook on the end) and clamber overside. They race to kill the first whitecoat and bring back its tail to dip it ceremoniously in a glass of rum as a toast to a bumper trip...
...Passed a bill to transfer small naval craft to China (to help it establish and train a Navy...