Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battleship (a second damaged and perhaps sunk), one cruiser, one destroyer, perhaps 75 planes...
...hates, and all his colleagues hate, the U.S. and British attitude toward Japan, and especially toward Japan's Navy. He has heard for years the U.S. Navy's boast that the Japs would be a pushover.* He knows how the cruiser Mogami, some of whose welded seams parted when she fired a full salvo on her trials, was exaggerated into a kind of saltwater One Hoss Shay. He knows how the little torpedo boat Tomoduru, which, because it was overloaded with guns and torpedo tubes and had insufficient displacement, tipped over on steam trials, was exaggerated into...
Searchlights and star shells stabbed suddenly through the pre-dawn darkness over the central Mediterranean one night last week. An Italian squadron of two cruisers, an E-boat (MAS) and a torpedo boat were caught off guard. From behind the lights came volleys of shells and torpedoes. One cruiser caught fire, exploded, dived to the bottom. The second blazed fiercely. The E-boat sank. The torpedo boat, badly crippled, may have escaped...
...Benito Mussolini's punch-drunk Navy it was a bitter week. Not 24 hours earlier the Admiralty had announced the torpedoing of still another Italian cruiser by a British submarine. London estimated that the Italians have left only ten or eleven of the 43 cruisers built or building at the war's beginning. Cracked New York Timesman David Anderson from London: "Some persons here are wondering now if the Italians have anything afloat that is a match for a British destroyer...
Chile, major stockholder in South America's 5,093-mile Pacific coast line, readied a cruiser, an escort of submarines and a submarine mother ship for patrol of the coast and the Strait of Magellan...