Word: hulked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coast Guardsmen manned the U.S.S. Wakefield (formerly the Manhattan) when she rescued women & children from under Jap barrages at Singapore. Months later, in the Atlantic, they got off all the soldier and civilian passengers when she caught fire, then towed her blackened hulk to port for repairs...
...searchlight bridge opens up now, and the wallowing hulk of the U-boat is clearly outlined in the glare. It shudders and rocks as the three-inch shells pour into it at the water line. Everybody on the cutter is yelling like a madman. Up forward you can see the Negro crew of number five gun, working like a machine, and grinning all the while. They throw the shells into the gun in a steady stream-the fastest gun crew on the cutter. And their lips move as they pour hot steel into the submarine. They're singing...
...motor boat came along and picked up the iced rowers and the little cox, and towed the splintered hulk shorewards, while Tom Bolles laughed and laughed, because he knew the first race was six weeks...
...Pacific, much was done by trial & error. There was no low-altitude bombsight. Bill Benn improvised one by riding in the nose of a Fortress, marking crosses on the bombardier's plexiglass windshield until he got what he wanted. Then he made a few runs against an old hulk stranded off Port Moresby, found that his marks were good enough for accurate sights...
...Casablanca, U.S. warships commanded by Admiral Henry K. Hewitt knocked out a bitterly resisting French cruiser-destroyer force while Navy flyers bombed the 35,000-ton battleship Jean Bart into a blazing hulk. The U.S. fleet moved inshore and soon was heaving shell after shell into the Moroccan coast...