Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy cruiser Indianapolis was almost the last of the 437 combat ships lost by the U.S. Navy in World War II. Her loss led to the first general court-martial of a ship's commanding officer. In most cases where ships were sunk, routine reports were enough to show that negligence was not a factor; in others, courts of inquiry reached the same finding. Not so in the case of the cruiser which carried parts of the first atomic bomb to the Marianas, only to be lost a few days later on the way to Leyte, with the heaviest...
Skipper McVay was asleep in his sea cabin 20 feet from the bridge and wearing only his pajama tops when two torpedoes* struck the cruiser's starboard side, forward, and touched off a magazine. He ordered the navigator to send out a distress report, with the ship's position, then ran back to his cabin for his clothes...
...Navy Day," as stated by TIME [Oct. 29], was indeed a "stirring performance and great publicity show." Where ships could not go, admirals were sent to make pleas on behalf of the near-defunct battleship and cruiser. A great show, indeed-and all at the cost of the taxpayer...
Republican Representative Bertrand W. Gearhart caused a slight flurry when he told newsmen that the cruiser Boise, en route to Manila from Pearl Harbor, had sighted a Jap task force but had not communicated its news because the skipper had been told to observe radio silence-and saw no reason for breaking the orders...
...here's old Professor Morison. We must be going to have a battle." This is the way Commander Samuel Eliot Morison '08, USNR, was greeted once as he boarded a Navy cruiser. In his position as historian of naval operations of the second world war, Comdr. Morison has seen the dangerous center of nearly every major sea battle, from Casablanca to the Gilbert Islands, from Tarawa to Okinawa...