Word: mogami
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stayed well away from the naval combatants-a precautionary measure which they seemed to follow throughout the Java invasion. At twelve-mile range the Allied cruisers loosed their main batteries on the Japanese. Destroyers closed with shell and torpedo fire. A Japanese heavy cruiser sank. Another Jap cruiser-the Mogami, whose main batteries had apparently been converted from 6.1-to 8-in. guns-retired in flames. Hits crippled a third 8-in. gun cruiser. Three Jap destroyers blazed up, appeared to be sinking when the attackers last saw them...
...hates, and all his colleagues hate, the U.S. and British attitude toward Japan, and especially toward Japan's Navy. He has heard for years the U.S. Navy's boast that the Japs would be a pushover.* He knows how the cruiser Mogami, some of whose welded seams parted when she fired a full salvo on her trials, was exaggerated into a kind of saltwater One Hoss Shay. He knows how the little torpedo boat Tomoduru, which, because it was overloaded with guns and torpedo tubes and had insufficient displacement, tipped over on steam trials, was exaggerated into...
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