Word: overboard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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hospital ships to sail within 15 miles of their base at Truk) was suddenly thrown overboard. Out of a clear moonlit night a Kamikaze plane dove into the U.S.S. Comfort, steaming southeast of Okinawa with its lights ablaze, in accordance with international law. The crippled 700-bed mercy ship, with 29 dead, limped toward port...
...John Bracken's gross exaggeration was quickly snatched up and re-exaggerated. The Germans used it ... and it was spread among our friends as well as among our enemies. The U.S. Senate was told that between 15,000 and 18,000 Canadian troops had thrown their rifles overboard. The damage was irreparable. We are doing what we can to offset it by repeating the denial and even releasing particulars of the one poor offender's court-martial and sentence, * but we cannot hope that this will counteract the further wanton damage done to our country...
...Defense Headquarters at Ottawa announced that Private W. H. Smith had been sentenced to 18 months' detention after confessing: "On Jan. 2, 1945, as I was crossing the gangplank, embarking on the ship for overseas, I deliberately threw my rifle and two kit bags overboard. I figured the military police would take me off the boat when I did this." The police...
...time for vitriolic German threats. Exhorted the Nazi Foreign Office spokesman: "Kill, murder and poison . . . cast overboard our last scruples." Perhaps the Nazi leadership, in the last ditch of desperation, would order gas or bacteriological warfare. But if the threat was another bluff, it was quickly called. SHAEF let the thing be said that had long been evident but unlabeled: that terror bombing of German cities was deliberate military policy. The German command could easily read between the lines an Allied warning...
Lieut. Commander Philip Torrey, skipper of the Essex' Air Group 9, was a brave man. But when the target was announced, he later recalled, "My first instinct was to jump overboard." On the first day at Truk, 127 land-based Jap planes were shot down, 77 more were bagged on the ground. On the second day, not one got off the ground. Two of the hardiest myths of the war in the Pacific had been exploded: 1) Truk was not impregnable; 2) in a contest with seaborne planes, land-based air power was no better than its planes...