Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...later Mitchells roared down to machine-gun the battered, burning ships. Lightning fighters darted at a cloud of Zeros. A new wave of Fortresses came over, low. Flame cloaked a destroyer. A 5,000-ton merchantman burst open. Four others were hit. Low-flying fighters turned lifeboats towed by motor barges, and packed with Jap survivors, into bloody sieves. Loosed on the Japs was the same ferocity which they had often displayed. This time few, if any, Japs in battle green reached shore...
...Suez to Alexandria (see map). A desert railroad and coastal shipping, now almost free of Axis air attack in the eastern Mediterranean, move material from Alexandria to Bengasi. At Bengasi supplies are picked up and transported by a fast fleet of more than 100,000 motor lorries,* which move some 2,400 tons a day along a 600-mile ribbon of road across Libya to Tripoli. To keep the lorries running is in itself a major problem. Every day 2,000 tires must be replaced...
...Corner," an austere office in the sprawling Navy building, officers and their civilian helpers could afford to grin. The returns were all in. Their charges, the skittering, mighty midgets that the Navy calls motor torpedo boats, had well and truly proved their worth. In the Philippines they had shown themselves first-class weapons in a last-ditch fight. In the Solomons they had proved more: that they were indispensable in the defense of any beachhead...
...from their sterns. A Jap destroyer blew up as searchlights probed for the attackers. Four-point-sevens from the Jap "cans" pounded at the PTs when they could see them. But they did not see them often. Apparently the Japs concluded they had been attacked by something more than motor boats. Anyhow, they retired. Next evening, when darkness fell again, Montgomery's water cavalry came out of the coves where they had hidden during the day, and went looking for more trouble...