Word: nagara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sent down to Turkey in 1915, Swing covered the Dardanelles attack. Later, crossing the Sea of Marmora on a Turkish freighter, the Nagara, he made a legend for himself. The freighter was overhauled by a British submarine. A Nagara officer frantically signaled Swing to do the talking. "Who are you?" demanded the sub commander, meaning "what ship?" Said the excited American landlubber: "I am Raymond Swing, of the Chicago Daily News." Kipling used it in his story of British subs...
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