Word: salvo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been badly hit by a Jap heavy cruiser; she was in flames. Shorty Small did not hesitate. He sailed the Salt Lake City in front of the Boise, though it meant silhouetting the old lady against the Boise's flaming wreckage. The Salt Lake City's first salvo silenced the Jap. Four more salvos of 8-in. shells sank the enemy ship. The Boise was saved. Old Swayback proudly escorted her from the battle area...
...Francisco, in running the gantlet, had crippled the Jap battleship, but a 14-in. salvo found the cruiser's bridge and killed Admiral Callaghan and Captain Cassin Young (who when blown into the water off the Arizona at Pearl Harbor swam back to his ship and resumed the fight). It knocked out Lieut. Commander Bruce McCandless, 31, third in command on the bridge at the time. When McCandless came to, he saw that he was "Sopus"—Navy for senior officer present. It was up to him to get the ship out. He got to his feet, took command...
Announced U.S. losses: two light cruisers and seven destroyers. U.S. losses might eventually prove to be more severe. Certainly damage must have been great. The San Francisco had most of her bridge blown away by the braid-killing salvo of 14-in. shells. Other ships undoubtedly took similar unannounced damage which will take time to repair. But the Japs suffered damage...
...south of the Rio Grande "the work of pure destruction," urged their abandonment. Catholic Digest in turn suggested that such missionary activity "violates our Good Neighbor policy" and that the U.S. "should cease to make divisions in South America." Last week the Christian Century, leading Protestant weekly, returned the salvo: "There are enough religiously indifferent people in South America to give Protestant missionaries an ample field for a century. What if they do proselyte? So does the Roman Catholic Church...
...another flagship until the Kelly was repaired. The next May, a U-boat torpedoed the Kelly. Lord Louis & crew again brought her home. In November 1940, aboard the new destroyer Javelin, Lord Louis led an attack on three German surface raiders. In flight, the Nazi warships fired a torpedo salvo. Two torpedoes holed the Javelin. R.A.F. fighters warded off Nazi bombers which came to finish the Javelin, and Lord Louis again nursed his flagship to port...