Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dunkirk. André Malraux's grandfather was a fierce little man who for 22 years attended Mass kneeling on the ground outside, in rain or wind, because of a quarrel with the church authorities. He had a prejudice against insurance, and when a storm sank his whole fishing fleet off Newfoundland, the Malraux family fortune was wiped out. André was brought up by his mother, who ran a small grocery shop in a Paris suburb...
...months after Pearl Harbor, the restless aggressors who bossed the Imperial Japanese Navy cast loftily about for new coasts to conquer. Having smashed many of the biggest ships of the U.S. and British fleets and landed their forces at will around the southern seas, they toyed between plans to go for India, Australia or Hawaii. It was Doolittle's Tokyo raid, launched in April 1942 from the U.S. carrier Hornet, that clinched the sea lords' new course of conquest. They decided to turn east, to capture Midway Island (1,300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor) and use this...
...battle of Midway to be published in the U.S., Former Captain Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the bombing attack on Pearl Harbor and now preaches in Japan as a Christian missionary, evokes the long-forgotten months when the Imperial Navy was top dog of the Pacific. The Midway invasion fleet that he describes numbered more than 200 ships, the mightiest yet assembled by the Japanese. Proud in the van rode the powerful, fast carrier attack force that had spread destruction from Pearl Harbor to Ceylon. Its bonus of strength, the admirals agreed, was surprise. Its only fear was that...
...Minutes. It was the U.S. fleet that had achieved the surprise. Caught with most of its planes aboard, the Akagi exploded and burned. So did two sister carriers, the Kaga and Soryu (Hiryu, the fourth, survived to be wrecked by an evening raid). In two minutes the whole course of the Pacific war changed. That night, its air striking power destroyed, the Japanese invasion armada turned in "emptiness, cheerlessness and chagrin" and limped for home. (The U.S. Navy lost the Yorktown, one of the three carriers that it was able to muster for the great battle...
...writing a letter advising the Department to check carefully with U.S. airlines in future deals. No matter which routes Lufthansa eventually gets, it will not be a strong competitor for some time to come. Lufthansa has just started a New York-to-Germany run twice a week with a fleet of four Super Constellations, will need years to build up a big air fleet...