Word: cruisers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week U.S. forces were going after Brittany's chief port with everything they had. Waves of bombs broke over the harbor, destroyed a German light cruiser, heavily damaged a destroyer and 14 cargo ships. England's ancient and honored battleship War spite, serenely standing 18 miles out, in 150 minutes plunked 212 rounds into Brest's forts, knocked out four big-gun batteries...
General George C. Kenney's bombers sank five freighters, left two more burning along with a cruiser. Here & there they picked off singletons. In the South China Sea, one of Major General Claire L. Chennault's Liberators sank a light cruiser. A week earlier the same plane had sunk three merchant ships, total 27,000 tons; before that the 18,765-ton Italian liner Conte Verde, which had just been refloated by the Japs at Shanghai...
...film of his Democratic Convention speech, in which his face had seemed gaunt and slack, his eyes and cheeks hollow. They had not been able to tell whether bad lighting or deep fatigue was responsible. They had noted that in pictures shot in Hawaiian sunshine, and again, beneath a cruiser's guns at Bremerton, he seemed healthier, more alert, though thinner of face. Therefore, with curiosity and concern, they filed in for the first post-Pacific press conference...
Military Voyage. Boarding a Navy heavy cruiser, a one-year-old veteran of 15 Pacific engagements, the President left San Diego Naval base the day after his Fourth Term acceptance speech, to rediscover the Pacific War. He lolled and rested for five days as the big grey ship plowed westward. Just out of sight of Hawaii's majestic Diamond Head, squad rons of pursuit planes came over, and the blue water below bubbled with the scurrying of PT boats...
...Pearl Harbor, the first on board the cruiser was General Douglas MacArthur, in leather windbreaker and his jaunty marshal's cap. MacArthur had flown in that day from New Guinea...