Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great semicircle to the north and south," the airman told a New York Herald Tribune correspondent, "the sea was flat and empty, but below me things were happening. There were barges and landing craft fully loaded. Our photographs proved they were leaving Sicily and empty ones were hurrying back...
...Rearguard's Fight. The little craft were taking the main forces of the Germans to the mainland. Left in the brown, rocky hills and steep-sided valleys to the westward was only a rearguard: battalions whittled down to companies, companies reduced to platoon strength...
Almost on the first clear day out of port, a Liberator had found three U-boats stalking the convoy preparing for attack. The big plane dropped its depth bombs: one submarine was considered sunk. Surface craft attacked two more, depth-charged them. From one a huge oil slick bubbled to the surface: the U-boat was seen no more...
...medium foggy morning, somewhere in the Pacific, PC-487 was dutifully sheep-dogging along on the outskirts of a convoy. Her sound detectors picked up a strange craft and she headed for that spot...
...rolled, her conning tower awash. Machine gunners on the patrol boat poured streams of bullets into the enemy craft. The forward deck gun crew got off one round?a direct hit on the conning tower?as the 487 circled to ram again. Now the submarine was almost entirely on the surface. The Little Fellow crashed into the Jap just forward of the conning tower, rolling the sub over. A wavering periscope scraped the side of the 487's hull, broke a stanchion on deck and came within an inch of decapitating Skipper Cornell...