Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convoyed North Atlantic freighters, made the "suicide run" to Murmansk and back, turned up smartly for the North African invasion and sank a bothersome Vichyfrench cruiser there. Junkers 88s caught her ten miles off Palermo after the Sicily invasion and almost pounded her to the bottom. She staggered into port and, unable to reply with anything but machine guns, took a stationary beating from German bombers...
...British Naval force on patrol ran afoul of a well-protected German convoy in the English Channel last week. The 5,450-ton British cruiser Charybdis was sunk by torpedoes and H.M. destroyer Limbourne, also torpedoed, was later abandoned and sunk by the British. The Germans seemingly got away scot-free in the first major naval engagement in the Channel since the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen fled from Brest past Dover's white cliffs...
...liberated Corsica, the French Navy symbolized a nation's renaissance. Side-by-side under the Tricolor, busily disembarking invasion troops and harassing the Germans, sailed the cruiser Jeanne d'Arc from Guadeloupe, the destroyers Le Fantasque and Le Terrible from Dakar, the destroyers Le Fortuné and Le Basque from Alexandria, the submarines Arétuse and Perle from Toulon...
Salmon's next duty station was aboard the light cruiser USS Detroit (3) where he served until assigned to the NSCS as an instructor in Supply in March of this year. Lieutenant Salmon has seen considerable action, including participation in the Battle of the Coral Sea. The lies tenant is married and has a daughter aged...
...great carrier Ark Royal, the cruiser Sydney and the battleship Barham were destroyed within eleven days in November 1941. On Dec. 7 came the U.S. disaster at Pearl Harbor, three days later the sinking of the battleship Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse off the coast of Malaya. The Royal Navy, upon which Britain depended for her strength and the U.S. for security in the Atlantic, faced the worst crisis since April...