Word: gunboat
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...Growler's story is the story of Commander Howard W. Gilmore. From the bridge one black night, he spotted an enemy gunboat. He swung the Growler away to ready his torpedoes, swung back to attack. In the darkness he did not see that the enemy had reversed course and was bearing down on him. Too close to use torpedoes, and directing from the bridge, he rammed the Growler into the gunboat at 17 knots...
...naval diversion was staged at Inchon, where the U.S. cruiser St. Paul and two destroyers pumped shells ashore. A few South Korean marines steamed boldly into Inchon harbor in an 80-ft. gunboat, tied up at a dock, skirmished ashore for four hours, killed 40 Chinese and sailed away with two prisoners. This week, the battleship Missouri and other vessels, including carriers, heavily bombarded the town of Kansong on the east coast...
...Photographers David Duncan and Hank Walker. Duncan missed the Inchon landing when the bombers of the Far Eastern Air Forces, which he had planned to cover, were grounded by bad weather. Walker almost missed it, too, when his landing craft was rammed and nearly sunk by a South Korean gunboat on the way into Inchon harbor...
Dragging for the fat shrimp which wriggle along the warm Mexican gulf coast, fishermen from Mexico, Cuba and the U.S. make long, profitable runs. But the business also has its hazards. One pink-streaked dawn last week, off the coast at Soto la Marina, a Mexican gunboat steamed up beside seven trawlers flying the U.S. flag and trained its guns on them. "You are fishing illegally in Mexican territorial waters!" bawled the skipper. "Follow me into Tampico under arrest...
Since 1842, Chu Tang claimed, China has been a semi-colonial nation controlled almost completely by imperialist European powers. The Communist attack on a British gunboat last week is a sign of the end of this era of foreign rule, Chu Said...