Word: salvoes
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...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...
...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...
...Salvo of Praise
...grateful reader pause in the day's occupation to suggest a salvo of praise for the anonymous editor and the selfless team of researchers and collaborators who are responsible for the over-all story on the U.S.S.R. and Maxim Litvinoff in the issue...