Word: cruisers
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...trouble. Offshore, the destroyer De Haven was on hand, but not much help. A Navy lieutenant in his gunfire spotting position ashore barked into his telephone: "Our artillery is so low that we'll be throwing C-rations at them unless we get a Charley Able [heavy cruiser] or at least another Dog Dog [destroyer...
...wintry waning moonlight, the skipper of the heavy cruiser Los Angeles, Captain Robert N. McFarlane, brought his ship about and within range parallel to the coast. From the naval post ashore came the map coordinates of the Red troops. In Lieut, Donald A. Marksheffel's main battery plotting room, seamen worked out range and meteorological data, fed it into a boxlike mechanical computer. The No. 3 gun turret swung around toward the target, its 8-in. muzzles rising slowly. Marksheffel dropped a hand, and a seaman pressed a warning buzzer three times with his left hand. With his right...
...British GHQ in the Canal Zone. They arrived looking fit, ready and mean. An infantry battalion and the 33rd Airborne Regiment followed. In Britain, 3,000 miles away, four-engine R.A.F. Hastings transports were gassed up to fly the crack igth Infantry Brigade to Suez. The 8,000-ton cruiser Gambia hove into Port Said...
...Dwight Eisenhower boarded the cruiser Des Moines at Naples, the Mediterranean was frothing into a bad storm. His green & gold SHAPE flag, flying over a naval vessel for the first time, was whipped to shreds by 60-mile winds. Ike himself skittered across rolling decks, disappeared into admiral's country and stayed there, confining himself to light reading and chats with his NATO commander for southern Europe, U.S. Admiral Robert B. ("Mick") Carney...
...Mauritius, the oilmen filed solemnly past Refinery Director Kenneth B. Ross, who was flying out next day. As each man passed, the director shook his hand. "Good luck, K.B.," the men murmured. Some 2,000 Iranians, many of them former company employees, watched in silence. Once on the cruiser, the fed-up oilmen wasted scarcely a look back at the vast $700 million refinery, the world's largest, that had been their life and their work...