Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They called themselves "the silent service" and their exploits were inscribed in greasy logbooks and terse messages ("Sturgeon no longer virgin") radioed back to COMSUBPAC headquarters at Pearl Harbor. From their voyages came stories of watching horse races in Tokyo Bay through their periscopes, of torpedoing a new Jap carrier as it slid down the ways, of receiving as many as 400 and 500 depth charges. Subs became the work horses of the fleet: they rescued 504 downed flyers, carried high-priority cargo and VIPs, charted enemy beaches before invasions, staged commando raids, acted as radio and weather stations...
...force in Korea, with adequate guarantees for the maintenance of such an armistice. Upon the receipt of word from you that such a meeting is desired I shall be prepared to name my representative . . ." The meeting, Ridgway suggested, could be held aboard the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia in the harbor off Wonsan, a port 70 miles deep in Communist-held territory...
...Tankers Weighed Anchor. In the boiling-hot port of Abadan, British tankers, ready to leave the harbor, pumped their oil cargoes back into the brimming storage tanks of the great refinery. They had refused to sign receipts acknowledging that the oil belonged to the new company. The Iranian hope that foreign tankers would move in vanished as the international oil fraternity set up a united front. Somehow, there wasn't a tanker-Norwegian, Swedish or Greek-to be chartered. Captains commanding U.S. and Norwegian tankers already in port refused to sign the receipts, weighed anchor and steamed...
...Banomyong, leader of Siam's pro-allied underground during World War II, out of power, and supplanted him with Army Man Phibun, a wartime Japanese collaborationist who is now an ardent friend of the West. Last week, with Phibun held prisoner on the warship Sri Ayuthia in the harbor, the navy announced that a new government, headed-with Siamese illogic-by a dissident ex-army officer, was taking over. The army supported Foreign Minister Nai Warakan Baucha as interim Premier...
...Rizzo di Grado, 63, one of Italy's most renowned naval heroes of World War I (only holder of two Medaglie d'Oro, highest Italian war decoration); of a lung ailment; in Rome. In December 1917, Rizzo and a small commando force sneaked into Trieste's harbor, cut the torpedo nets, then returned with small boats to sink Austria's battleship Wien, next year equaled the feat by torpedoing the Szent-Istvan...