Word: salvos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...darkness darted a flotilla of speedy, 679-ton torpedo boats, charging in close to loose a shoal of their tin fish. Heeling over hard, the Ajax spurted forward out of their path, opened up with her 6-inch guns. Into the hull of one Italian smashed the first salvo, scarcely dispersed at the point-blank range. But the other attackers maneuvered their small guns into play, began pumping 3.9-inch shells back at the Ajax. With an orange-colored flash, an Italian shell plowed through an unarmored compartment forward on the Ajax. Next minute, a series of blasts roared from...
Suddenly one of the cruisers shuddered. About 200 yards astern of her a huge plume of foam scarred the blue of the Mediterranean and the blue of the southern sky. Other plumes from the same salvo walked out across the water. Every one a miss...
...picture (lower right) shows the 26,500-ton battle cruiser Strasbourg, whose stern is visible beyond the bridge of the Provence (in the foreground), starting to pull out. Beyond her, the sister ship of the Provence, the 22,189-ton battleship Bretagne has already been hit by a salvo. A few moments later (upper left) the Strasbourg has got away, and over the stern of the burning Bretagne is visible the airplane tender Commandant Teste. One shell of a salvo is bursting in the water. A short time later the bombardment has ceased, and the Bretagne is heeled over (middle...
...bombardier. Down the groove flies the Heinkel with its belly bomb-bay doors open. As it gets into range, the bombardier presses the bomb-release button. If he has set his selector for one bomb, only one falls toward the target. If he has set it for salvo-bombing, all drop. Air Corps enlisted men call this "opening the tail gate...
Bombardier Lamasch's work was as good as done. He will earn $22 for one rehearsal, and one performance of the 1812 Overture. His job: standing by while an eight-man gun crew fires a 14-round salvo on the anti-tank guns...