Word: flotilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II's start, Lord Louis was a Captain in command of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla. Three months later his flagship, the new destroyer Kelly, hit a mine in the North Sea. Lord Louis nursed her home, transferred to another flagship until the Kelly was repaired. The next May, a U-boat torpedoed the Kelly. Lord Louis & crew again brought her home. In November 1940, aboard the new destroyer Javelin, Lord Louis led an attack on three German surface raiders. In flight, the Nazi warships fired a torpedo salvo. Two torpedoes holed the Javelin. R.A.F. fighters warded...
Because the Thames at New London is wanted for other purposes, the Harvard-Yale crew races were held last week over Yale's home course on the Housatonic. There were no observation trains, no flotilla of yachts, no high jinks on the banks. But old grads turned out, a few thousand strong, to pay what may be their last respects (for the duration.) to the oldest and once the gayest intercollegiate sport event...
Nazi reconnaissance planes discovered a flotilla of powerful British destroyers which may have been steaming toward the rumored naval concentration off Tripoli. Swarms of Heinkel & Junkers dive-bombers swooped down on the destroyers in midafternoon, sank the 1,935-ton Lively on their first attack, were driven off by British Beaufighters on their second, sank the 1,695-ton Kipling on a third go and so severely damaged her sister ship the Jackal that the British sank her next day. The signs of increasing Axis activity might simply be provoked by an Allied success in the war of nerves...
...morning before dawn's crack they headed for him again. To their surprise, 450 miles off the coast, they saw below them not just the Jap Fleet but a Donnybrook Fair that had all the earmarks of a private fight between the Jap and U.S. Navies. A U.S. flotilla had taken...
Said Prime Minister Churchill to the House of Commons: "In the last two months there has been a most serious increase in shipping losses, as our anti-U-boat flotilla and naval light forces have been, and are, strained to the limits...