Word: oilers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open seas and centers about a lifeboat containing several people who have just been rescued from a sinking ship. By a quirk of fate, the Nazi submarine captain who torpedoed them is also aboard. For a time they drift aimlessly while Tallulah Bankhead and John Hodiak, the ship's oiler, take part in some sultry necking scenes and Bill Bendix, another crew member, moans about Rosie, Roseland, and the Dodgers...
...miles at the widest) was full of shipping: sampans, inter-island craft, seagoing merchantmen, tankers, warships. Said a U.S. pilot: "It was a dive bomber's paradise, and we turned it into a Japanese hell." The score after ten minutes of concentrated attack: two light cruisers, one oiler, three cargo transports sunk; one troop transport, three cargo transports damaged; grounded planes and shore installations hard...
...Commander Elmer P. Abernethy, captain of the Navy oiler Pecos, who ordered his crew to abandon ship in the Battle of Java, then manned a machine gun on the bridge and fought off Jap planes strafing his escaping...
...Japanese land-based bombers as she approached Java with a cargo of U.S. fighting planes that might have won the battle and preserved the key of the Indies for the Allies. More than half of the survivors who were picked up by destroyers and transferred to the naval oiler Pecos, were lost two days later when the oiler was sunk by Jap bombers...
...could identify the targets, whether oiler, transport, freighter or warship. But they were Japanese, and that was all the destroyer's men needed to know. At short ranges, never over 500 yards, her torpedoes shot into the sides of ships that were out of sight before the roar of the explosions...