Word: greer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...minutes after the depth charges were dropped a second torpedo was sighted 500 yards off the Greer's starboard bow. The Greer went searching. That afternoon she picked up the submarine again, closed, attacked with depth charges, eleven this time. But the U-boat apparently got away to report: two days later Germany announced its version of the encounter...
...Greer was lucky. Had a torpedo caught her fairly, she would almost certainly have foundered, for her World War I skin is thin...
...Greer was dogging an enemy submarine even before the shoot-on-sight order, there is little doubt that since that order other destroyers have not only been dogging but dropping depth charges on every U-boat their finders locate...
...Berlin came a claim that a convoy had been attacked after it entered Germany's combat zone, that ten freighters and two "enemy destroyers" had been sunk. The location was close to the spot where the Kearny was hit. But the fact was that the Kearny, like the Greer, was out sub-hunting when...
When the Kearny was struck, to her side steamed a slim, salt-crusted four-piper with signal flags whipping from her bridge. It was the U.S.S. Greer...