Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midway the Japanese lost four first-line aircraft carriers, two heavy cruisers and three destroyers. Three Jap battleships, a light cruiser, at least three transports and several destroyers were crippled before they drew out of range of U.S. aircraft. Estimated Jap losses in aircraft...
Against the Japanese invasion force went nine Army Flying Fortresses. Bombing from the flat, the Boeings got hits on a transport and a cruiser, left them burning. Night fell. By moonlight, four Consolidated Catalinas lumbered into the fleet, let drive with torpedoes, hit two big ships. The Japs still plowed...
...convoy was churning toward the Barents Sea. Off North Cape it ran into trouble. For several days all that was known of the encounter was the Berlin radio's growing claims, first that nine, later that 32 out of 38 ships had been sunk, with an escorting U.S. cruiser tossed in for good measure...
Then a Soviet submarine commander. Captain Nicolai Lunin, told of sighting the 35,000-ton battleship Tirpitz rounding North Cape, protected by three cruisers (possibly the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Liitzow) and eight destroyers. Lunin maneuvered daringly through the screening vessels, sent two torpedoes crashing into the mighty Tirpitz. Immediately the lesser ships drew close about the wounded one. All slowly turned back toward Norway and later were sighted hugging the shore, still plowing toward their anchorage in Trondheim Fjord...
DESIGN IN EVIL-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Shanghaied Manhattan maiden on an outbound motor cruiser is in a sad plight when a psychiatrist insists that she is schizophrenic, and the subsequent stabbing of a frightened woman is charged to her account. A tempest-tossed thriller with interesting psychological overtones...