Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duties . . . carried me by Pier 6 yesterday where I spotted the sleek German cruiser Prinz Eugen. ... I went topside and sighted a trio of Kraut sailors frying spuds in a section of the galley. With inadequate college German I questioned the sailors carefully, with an eye toward their ideologies. I learned that . . . the Atom Bomb was a development of German science, that Hitler was dead, that given four months Germany could have won, that freedom of speech was a sickness enjoyed by democracies and not compatible to German Natur...
...night of Feb. 28, 1942, a radio flash told the Navy that its cruiser Houston had joined battle with the Japs. Then there was silence. Everyone knew the Houston must have gone down; everyone was sure that she had gone down gallantly. But not until last week, when the Navy gathered reports from survivors who had been held incommunicado in Japanese prison camps until the end of the war, was the story told...
...last night of February she headed out from Tanjong Priok, Batavia, to take up a new stand off the South Java coast. With her were the Australian cruiser Perth and one Dutch destroyer. Half her crew was at battle stations, the rest flopped exhausted in their bunks...
...submarine's radio report of sinking "something" along the cruiser's route was intercepted, partly decoded-but not taken seriously...
...last great tragedy of World War II -the sinking of the cruiser Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea last July, with the loss of 880 lives-was unveiled in full detail last week. Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz called in newsmen, said: "We have no desire or intention to deny any of our mistakes." Then he confessed four grievous ones...