Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Immobilized: the powerful old 22,146-ton aircraft carrier Beam; the 5,886-ton cruiser Emile Bertin; the 6,496-ton cruiser Jeanne D'Arc, at Guadeloupe; some small auxiliary craft. Most important, U.S. patrol vessels which have had to stand vigil will be freed for tasks elsewhere...
...Trondheim near week's end slipped the sleek 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen with four destroyers around her, a hefty flight of Nazi fighters circling overhead. British reconnaissance pilots spotted the force, beep-beeped frantically on their radios for help. They got it quickly. From Britain a heavy air striking force -Beaufighters, Blenheims, Hudsons and Beaufort torpedo carriers-swept out across the North Sea. They found the Nazi force and piled in, while German fighters hacked at them...
With her rudder jammed hard over, the Marblehead circled like a headless hen, smoke seething fore & aft. Her decks slithered with oil, water, patches of blood. Once more the ship was hit. Sky guns from the cruiser Houston winged a bomber which tried to suicide-dive the Marblehead, crashed into the water only 30 feet away...
...Phillips last week. He was just back from convoying supplies to Murmansk. "Ships sailing to or from Murmansk," he said, "go into action almost the first day out against surface craft and submarines." Confirming such accounts of Arctic peril, the Admiralty announced loss of the 10,000-ton cruiser Edinburgh and four merchant ships as the result of enemy attacks on two convoys plying the North Cape route. Yet Winston Churchill (see p. 26) was able to announce that, despite some losses, every convoy carrying U.S.British supplies to Russia has gotten through...
...reports on Avenger operations. Not so with the earlier model Wildcat. Last February, carrier-based Wildcats engaged Japanese land-based aircraft over the Marshall Islands, shot down ten fighters and three bombers without loss of a single U.S. plane. At Wake Island, two Marines in Wildcats sank a Jap cruiser with bombs. Lieut. Commander Edward ("Butch") O'Hare was at a Wildcat's controls when he bagged five Jap bombers and crippled another in a single engagement...