Word: flotilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sank the Japanese Fleet? I, said the Russian navy. With my Amur River Flotilla I sank the Japanese Fleet...
Writing in Pravda on Russian Navy Day last week, Soviet Admiral I. S. Yumashev gave the following account of the victory: "We faced the fresh, elite Kwantung Army and considerable Japanese naval forces based on Korea and the West Coast of Japan . . . The [Soviet] Pacific Fleet and the Amur Flotilla began a resolute offensive which ended in the complete routing of the enemy . . . We recovered Southern Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, which had always belonged to Russia,* and the Soviet forces entered Port Arthur. The Japanese beast of prey was forced to his knees; imperialist Japan capitulated...
Four days later, the largest flotilla of shells ever to compete in one regatta-32 in all-lined up on Lake Onondaga, N.Y. for the 2,000-meter Eastern sprint championships for varsity, junior varsity and freshmen. With the traditional coach's gloom, Tom Bolles said: "In a short race, some egg beater might win." But when the six varsity finalists (Pennsylvania, Navy, Cornell, Yale, Princeton and Harvard) got off the mark, it was clear that no egg beater was going to steal the race...
Into the breach stepped Douglas Kennedy, who sports the colors of the New York Herald Tribune flotilla...
...flotilla would look something like this, in order of State's priorities...