Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombardment had been scheduled to start at 11 p.m. but the force was late in reaching the firing course. It was 11:14 when the Iowa belched the flame of a full, nine-gun broadside which threw her several feet crabwise through the black water. Then her sister ships and the British joined in: broadside after broadside of 2,100-and 1,560-lb. shells screeched through...
...Admiral Sir Philip ("Cossack") Vian, non-flying commander of the British flattops, sent their flyers off to swoop out of a blustery dawn onto the airfields around Tokyo. In the bad weather, the aviators had poor hunting. The Americans, on the southern flank of the attack, could find only nine seaplanes, all sitting ducks, of which four were burned and five damaged. They also smashed two hangars, sank three small craft and damaged ten others. The British, farther north, destroyed a hangar and 13 planes. Both groups shot up locomotives and hit factories and barracks...
Shots in the Dark. Halsey selected that night for his most defiant gesture. His battleships steamed within ten miles of the coast of Honshu, northeast of Tokyo. As they bore south, each trained the 67-ft. barrels of its nine 16-inch rifles over the starboard beam...
Three days later the Generalissimo took a second step. From his 13-man Cabinet he fired nine Ministers, most of them Falangists (e.g., Falange Secretary-General José Luis Arrese). Of the new Ministers, some are monarchists (e.g.. Army Minister General José Fidel Davila...
...slow start due to last week's intermittent rains, the Freshman and NROTC baseball leagues have racked up only one official contest apiece. Last Tuesday Company One's Gray shut out the Company Three nine 6 to 0 in a one sided five-inning battle, while on the previous Thursday in a Fresh inter-House contest Smith rolled over Standish 5 to 3 behind the able pitching of Hutchins. Freshman softball has been irregular due to a light turnout...