Word: hoving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blow. At Palau it looked as if the Jap Navy would choose to retire from another segment of the Pacific rather than give battle. Japanese scout planes had sighted the U.S. battle force as it approached, and long before the U.S. fleet hove in sight, Japanese vessels fled from the harbor...
...cracked again, made Dutch Harbor, was repaired by Seabees this time and cleared for Seattle. In the Gulf of Alaska she ran into a gusty blow, hove to for eight hours, cracked again, rigged chains to relieve the stress. When she finally made Puget Sound, she was leaking but still under her own steam...
...weapon by a secret weapon was the celebrated battle of the ironclads in the U.S. Civil War. Less than 24 hours after the South's armored Merrimac had attacked the North's wooden fleet at Hampton Roads, the Yankee Monitor, an armored "cheesebox" invented by John Ericcson, hove into cannon range. They slugged each other to a standoff...
...invasion test last week, the Germans are only 200 mi. from the Reich. For all military purposes, Belgium, The Netherlands and the Channel coast of France are walls of the inner fortress. On that coast last week, not a Nazi gun spoke when a British troop convoy hove within sight and range. Airmen sweeping northwestern France got the impression that both ground and aerial defenses were astoundingly weak; London heard that the Germans had withdrawn 13 of their 34 divisions from western France and the Lowlands. Either the Nazis had laid a masterful trap, or the western wall had become...
Then destroyers and transports slid into Blanche Channel (between Rendova and New Georgia). Just before a stormy dawn, the transports hove to off Rendova. Landing barges snaked their way swiftly through a reef-jagged channel and ashore. Above loomed the jungle-robed, broken crater of Rendova Peak...