Word: sightedness
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Now the afterdeck gun crew got into action, pumping five shells into the sub. The Jap's bow rose in the air, hung for a moment, then the enemy vessel plunged beneath the surface, stern first, at a 45-degree angle. Fifteen minutes after she had been sighted, the sub...
At 2 that afternoon, Lawson and his crew sighted the coast of Japan. Flying in at low level they saw fruit trees in bloom, neat farms fitting into each other, farmers at work. It took iron control to pass up "the biggest, fattest-looking aircraft carrier" the crew ever saw...
For five days she lay under water, sur facing cautiously, at night. On the after noon of June 10 the Clyde's commander sighted a target that made the strain worth enduring: a German pocket battle ship and a cruiser. She lost them. Early the next morning she sighted...
The bankers, to be sure, ran up the total of U.S. foreign loans from around $2 billion in 1912 to about $15 billion in 1930. But the loans were mostly in what British policy would have regarded as the wrong places. With short-sighted caginess, U.S. bankers placed their money...
In a new effort to cut Allied supply lines in the Pacific, Japan has diverted some of her submarines from fleet opera tions to attacks against Allied merchant shipping. Jap subs have been sighted all along the shipping lanes from the Tonga Islands to the southeast tip of Australia.