Word: crews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pilot Woods calculated his landing perfectly. The only thing he did not calculate correctly was the intention of the Japanese. The Japanese dived again & again, spraying the downed plane with machine-gun bullets. The transport's crew and passengers went overboard into the river and the Japanese planes fired on them in the water, continuing the work of extermination. Pilot Woods was carried away by a swift current and reached shore in safety. Radio Operator Joe Loh and a passenger, Chinese Civil Servant C. N. Lou, with a bullet in his neck, also escaped. Two days later, while...
Year ago, the 1,650-ton Spanish Leftist destroyer José Luis Diez limped into Falmouth, England, seriously damaged by Rightist air bombs. Most of her crew of 60 left the ship, claiming that they would be shot as "Reds" if they returned to Rightist Spain, as "deserters" if taken back to Leftist Spain. A loyal skeleton crew took her to France for repairs, and fortnight ago the José Luis Diez was again ready for action...
...year-old commander, Juan Antonio Castro, took her out of Le Havre, France with a new loyal crew, determined to sail around the bulge of the Iberian Peninsula and through the Straits of Gibraltar to the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, Rightist warships vigilantly patrolled the Straits. One night last week, when land fighting on the stalemated fronts was comparatively quiet with only a minor Leftist counteroffensive in the South being waged, Commander Castro decided to run the blockade. About midnight, with lights out, the José Luis Diez passed Tangier, the internationally governed protectorate of Morocco. Off Tarifa, southern tip of Spain...
...direct hit in the port bow killed the 24 chained prisoners and eight of the crew...
...foreign military attachés and the Regent suddenly spied in the hurrying military parade four specimens of a completely new heavy mobile gun. Each gun appeared to have a crew of about 40 and sped past in five sections, each rolling on rubber tires and pulled by a heavy tractor. First section, the gun carriage; second, the gun cradle; third, the immense recoil and recuperator gear; fourth, incidental equipment of the gun; and fifth, the gun barrel which appeared to be some 45 feet long with a calibre of ten inches. A retired naval officer of a Great Power...