Word: gunboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are few anecdotes about circumspect Bill Leahy. But there is one story which, although apocryphal, is characteristic. When the Japs sank the gunboat Panay in 1937, Franklin Roosevelt, so the story goes, summoned the Admiral and asked: "Bill, what will it take to lick Japan...
...later governor of Massachusetts.* Other Brookses spilled their blue blood against the British at Lake Erie, and against the Seminoles in Florida. But the Saltonstalls fought in 1812 and 1861; one was cited for gallantry in the Civil War, as commander of an unseaworthy ferryboat converted into a gunboat...
...flanks. A British amphibian force struck north of the Volturno's mouth, from the Tyrrhenian Sea. German artillery lay in wait. But that did not stop the Tommies. From American-type, bow-opening craft they landed, dug in. Offshore, the British destroyers Laforey and Lookout and The Netherlands gunboat Flores shelled the German defenses. The action was fierce, costly. But the bridgehead...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was taking the oath as President of the Republic of China. The people surged through the mud and drizzle to stare at the ban ners, the red posters, the lanterns, the brightly colored electric lights. In the gorge below the bleak, steeply terraced city, a gunboat barked 21 times...
Also lost in other U.S. naval operations: in the Mediterranean, the submarine chaser PC 496 and the salvage vessel Redwing. Off the North Carolina coast, the gunboat Plymouth. Presumably in the Pacific, the submarine Pickerel...