Word: raider
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...assault against Shikoku and Kyushu when a Jap bomber dropped out of the low overcast, rocketed in over the bow of the 27,000-ton carrier Franklin ("Big Ben") and swept the length of her flight deck. Not until too late did antiaircraft crews get their guns on the raider. From the Jap's belly two 500-lb. bombs plummeted down...
...general attitude of the Americans was reflected by Lieutenant Lawrence Bangser, veteran Marine raider: "Either this Jap general is the world's greatest tactician or the world's most stupid man." Before noon on L-day (Loveday in the voice signal alphabet), the Jap general had lost Okinawa beyond reprieve. The tanks had arrived, the artillery was arriving to augment the planes and naval gunfire. The fleet's big guns had not been necessary in the immediate sense of killing Japs, but they had perhaps discouraged the halfhearted Jap general...
...Cavalryman Patton gallops along in a tradition of military men Americans have always cheered-Phil Sheridan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James Elwell Brown Stuart, the men who used their cavalry as Patton uses his armor, like a saber. Patton is a modern version of Jeb Stuart's scout and raider: Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby...
Some Marines Wept. The 28th Regiment (part of the sth Division) of tall, gaunt Colonel Harry ("The Horse") Liver-sedge, ex-Raider, took Suribachi Volcano on D-plus-four. When the U.S. flag was raised over this highest point on the island, some marines wept openly...
...dawn, she sighted a ship that looked, in the dim distance, like an armed raider. The stranger was twice challenged, and twice she ignored the "Daisy Mae." Then Lieut. Commander (now Commander) G. H. Stephen ordered his signalman: "Tell them we're going to open up if they don't answer.'' Back came the reply: "Carry on, Canada, with your gallant little ship...