Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many an average citizen, Harry Truman greeted the bomb with few immediate overtones of philosophic doubt. When it was dropped on Hiroshima, by his order, he was aboard the cruiser Augusta, returning from his first international conference at Potsdam. He rushed to the officers' wardroom, announced breathlessly: "Keep your seats, gentlemen. . . . We have just dropped a bomb on Japan which has more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It was an overwhelming success." Applause and cheering broke out; the President hastened along to spread the word in the other messes...
Among the silent spectators in the silent courtroom was a woman whose only son had been lost in the sinking of the heavy cruiser Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea last July 30. Another woman who listened was the wife of Captain Charles Butler McVay III, captain of the Indianapolis. McVay had spent four days bobbing in the oil-covered, sun-seared Philippine Sea after the "Indy" went down. It was McVay who was now on trial, charged with negligence and inefficiency in the loss of his ship. He also sat there, listening to the man who had humiliated...
Floor-Gazer. Iko Hashimoto testified. He had sighted the Indy at a range of 11,000 yards (in such visibility, the prosecution charged, the cruiser should have been zigzagging); her straight course had given Hashimoto an easy torpedo solution -so easy, he said, he had not bothered to use "human torpedoes" (guided by suicide pilots). He had scored three hits-Hashimoto was very professional and calm. The Indy had gone down with the loss of 880 American lives...
...time at Leyte was sent out by radio from Guam. But was it ever received at Leyte, and if so, by whom? Were Leyte port authorities negligent in not reporting her overdue? Were there defects in the air searches (flown from three nearby bases) which failed to detect the cruiser's giant oil slick for three days after she sank...
...time he was dressed, his senior subordinates were recommending that the ship be abandoned. Scrappy Captain McVay, who won the Silver Star for gallantry as second in command of the cruiser Cleveland in the Solomons, was not convinced at first. The court must decide whether his delay in issuing the order increased the ghastly loss of life...