Word: gun-turret
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When the Navy claimed that the 1989 gun-turret explosion that killed 47 sailors on the battleship U.S.S. Iowa was "most probably" caused by sabotage, its investigation was widely criticized as sloppy and its conclusion as unjustified. Last week testimony by the General Accounting Office gave the critics strong support. The GAO found that the disaster may not have been triggered by a crewman, Gunner's Mate Clayton Hartwig, as the Navy hypothesized...
...wake of the gun-turret explosion on the U.S.S. Iowa that in April killed 47 sailors, the Naval Investigative Service considered a bizarre theory: that Navy petty officer Kendall Truitt may have set off the explosion to collect on a $100,000 insurance policy taken out by a sailor killed in the blast. The story was guaranteed a full airing when Pentagon sources privately confirmed the investigation to the press...
...Hawaii's outer-island hotels [July 23] will easily draw the intelligent tourist away from the cellblock gun-turret piles that corrupt Waikiki and blotch the lovely profiles of Diamond Head and Punchbowl. A few of our developers care for Honolulu, once one of the world's beautiful cities; the rest are feverishly changing it into the architectural junkyard of the Pacific...
...that the intensive training ("Our planes were in the air at 7 a.m. each morning and sometimes we'd still be at it at 10 p.m.") did not bother him. He thought the B-25 (North America's medium-range Mitchell bomber, stripped of its radio, bottom gun-turret and Norden bombsight) was a lively ship...
...submarines use air conditioners and almost all naval shipbuilders cram conditioners into the tight hulls of destroyers, the sealed gun-turret rooms of other craft...