Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caught two Italian battleships and a heavy cruiser in their bomb-sights, proved that those secret U.S. instruments work superbly. Twenty bombs plastered one of the battleships, 15 the other. Said the flight commander, Major Alfred F. Kalberer, of LaFayette, Ind.: "It was like shooting fish in a barrel." Unhappily, the fish refused to die. Later an R.A.F. torpedo slowed one of the battleships, sank the bombed cruiser...
Captain Rooks was commander of the cruiser U.S.S. Houston, lost following the battle of Java. He was listed as missing in action, and the award of the nation's highest war decoration was made by President Roosevelt...
...Fortresses to the attack. Clouds compelled his crews to fly fairly low (at about 7,000 feet). The accuracy of the Japs' anti-aircraft fire surprised the U.S. pilots and bounced their planes around, but none was brought down. In this first attack, they reported hits on one cruiser, a transport, possibly a second cruiser and a battleship...
...Japanese meant business: their air attack on Dutch Harbor (TIME, June 15) had been no feint. The U.S. meant business, too: in Washington, Army & Navy officials announced U.S. air attacks on Japanese forces in the western islands of the Aleutians, claimed one cruiser sunk, seven other vessels damaged, including one aircraft carrier, three more cruisers. The Navy also described "continuing air attacks upon enemy landing parties and their supporting naval contingents...
...Rich in destroyers (171) when the Jap attacked, the Navy is now building more, of the Fletcher class. Their secret design is the answer to the Jap's 2,000-ton Kageros, and his secretly built "cruiser-destroyers...