Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval forces had taken losses, too: five destroyers,*a destroyer transport, two ammunition ships, two mine-craft, four smaller vessels. The cost in men in the Ryukyus (Okinawa) operation told a truly surprising story: 989 officers and men of the fleet killed, 2,220 wounded. 1,491 missing; ashore, 478 Army men and marines killed, 2,457 wounded, 260 missing...
...little eight-landing-craft task force then withdrew and waited for the time fuses to work. The 85-pound charge went off like a popgun. It was disappointing. Then the "battleship" really erupted. A flat piece of steel, blew up like wastepaper in a column of grey smoke. Concrete chunks showered the water for hundreds of yards around. From a hole on top, reinforcing steel pieces stuck up like pitchfork prongs. Smoke poured out of everywhere-from the sallyports, vents, turrets. If the concussion didn't kill the Japs, Colonel Soule (promoted to brigadier general the next...
...held sections of Okinawa's shore when the red-balled planes flashed in to attack. From a small landing boat TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod watched a twin-engined Jap bomber sneak over a hillside and head into the fleet, apparently picking out a transport near Sherrod's craft as its intended victim. Sherrod radioed...
...their yards. Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's birdmen found good hunting at Kure and Kobe on the Inland Sea. In one day they damaged one or two battleships; two or three larger carriers, two medium carriers and two escort carriers; two cruisers and a dozen smaller craft. Six small freighters were definitely sunk...
...sleek, V-shaped hull, the 45,000-ton Midway has enough electric power to light up a city of 1,000,000, enough steel for 25,000 autos. It is wider and almost half again as heavy as the Essex class carriers, now the first line craft of the U.S. fleets. But the tin-hatted, horn-handed men who built the Midway are accustomed to superlatives. They have long bragged that: 1) Newport News is the biggest U.S. shipyard; 2) its sharp-eyed, terrier-like boss, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, 72, is by all odds the best builder of warships...