Word: cruisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn broke over the small Algerian fishing port of Collo, the grim shape of a French cruiser materialized out of the darkness. Even as French children swarmed down to the beach to cheer, Georges Leygues' 8-in. guns swung shoreward and thundered salvo after salvo into the hills behind the town. Minutes later, French planes strafed the target area. Marines swarmed ashore from the cruiser, trucks carrying Senegalese troops roared up the road from Philippeville and swung up into the hills. It was the first combined air-sea-ground operation of the French in Algeria, aimed at the concentration...
Died. Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan, 84, Commander (1917-20) of the Grand Fleet's 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, Naval Aide-de-Camp (1930-31) to George V; of pneumonia; in Leamington, England...
...first ascertaining that the Norwegian fishermen were in port, in keeping with the Norwegian law which forbids fishing on Sundays, a fleet of some 60 Soviet boats followed a shoal of herring inside Norway's four-mile limit and let down their purse nets off Aalesund. A police cruiser sped out to chase the trespassers. When the Russian boat captains could not or would not understand, a shoal of small warships of the Norwegian navy steamed out. Two Russian boats tried to get away; a machine gun sputtered, and the boats hove to. Norwegians climbed aboard four small boats...
Target Practice. In Nanaimo. B.C., Kathleen Pojee was fined $12.50 for speeding after she twice slammed her car into a police cruiser that flagged her down, explained to the cops that she had mistaken their car for one driven by her husband...
...sonar. The Liverpool stokers blaspheme authentically, and about the story lies the fascination of precise technical information and service jargon-the grim grammar of war. After 20 months of the terrible Murmansk run, Ulysses is brought to her death at the guns of a hit-and-run German cruiser. Many of those who volunteer to buy the book will wish it could be compulsory reading in Russia. It recalls a cost of Lend-Lease not in dollars or pounds but in unimaginable hardship...