Word: merchantmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arctic dawn was grey and dismal and the carriers tossed in a heavy sea, but the Barracuda dive bombers and the fighters went up. Off Bodö in northern Norway, through wind-tossed snow and rain, they sighted a German convoy - four merchantmen and five escorts. The British attacked. They hit all nine ships, set fires on several, sent one to the beach and one, they believed, to the bottom...
Nine thousand miles away, in the western Pacific, the Navy was busy demonstrating that such carriers, plus smaller cruisers and merchantmen converted into carriers, could operate effectively against Japanese land-based aviation ... a thesis that was once fiercely debated (TIME, June...
...From Washington the Navy announced that two submarines had returned to report sinking 13 more Jap merchantmen. ^ But the most impressive attacks were made in the Central Pacific, where frosty-eyed, newly promoted Admiral Raymond Spruance and his Central Pacific Fleet bored swiftly westward. Ten weeks elapsed between the first Central Pacific attack (Tarawa) and the second (Kwajalein). But only ten days after Kwajalein, U.S. troops landed on Eniwetok, while the Navy made its fierce raid on Truk...
...Ranger's greatest feat was to spearhead a British task force last October in a daring raid into Norwegian waters, well within range of German land-based bombers. In two attacks the carrier's planes sank four merchantmen, a tanker and an oil barge, damaged other ships and shot down a Junkers 88 and a Messerschmitt 115. The carrier was undamaged, lost only three planes. When she got back to port, British warcraft "cheered the ship" as she passed down the line, in a rare salute to a U.S. Navy ship and crew...
Last week warships, transports and merchantmen in categories and quantities never seen before crept into Pearl Harbor, crept out again. The distant boom of practising naval guns reverberated through the silvery warm winter mornings...