Word: cruisers
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...lively brown eyes took in two familiar shapes: a pair of Flying Fortresses, in their dull camouflage, standing on the tarmac. Seventeen days had passed since he led them on a flight to the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, where their bombs socked a Jap cruiser and a Jap troopship. On this Sunday morning, he had flown to the airdrome to reward the Fortress crews with Silver Stars* for their coolness and success under Japanese anti-aircraft and fighter fire. That honorable duty done (including the acceptance of a Silver Star himself), he performed one of the routine...
...loaded up again the same afternoon and went back. Everything was the same except they had lined up three transports for us - one, two, three broadside - and a cruiser besides. So we squared away. We hit that cruiser right on the bow and got those transports, too. That night we felt real good...
Near her in the quiet fjord lay the crack 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen. She had been badly shaken. But Britain's airmen made no bet that the Eugen would not soon be ready for work again...
...next 48 hours. In that cataclysmic, overcast afternoon and black night, the Lützow was in the forefront of action. She was finally so battered that she had to be abandoned. Cool and unhurried, Officer Raeder oversaw the transfer of his chief's flag to another battle cruiser, the Moltke, then through the retirement picked up the pieces of his job and went methodically on with...
...began to land men along the coast, probably about 12,000. From one of the coves a U.S. Navy PT boat whirled out, roaring like an infuriated bull, slashed into the convoy, sent a torpedo fairly into the side of a Jap second-class cruiser. She was sinking when the PT whirled away...