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...warship sunk-the torpedoed escort carrier Liscome Bay.* Many went down with her off Makin, including her skipper, Captain Irving D. Wiltsie, and a task force commander aboard her, Rear Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix...
...Finally we got close enough so I knew the shells from three ships were hitting him. He was burning and exploding all over. Just as we prepared to open up with torpedoes he sank with a terrible explosion." The box score, after the fight was over: four Jap ships sunk, I damaged,I escaped, no U.S. losses...
...umbrella of limited scope when the Jap in Central China and along the Salween front of western Yunnan stabs at the tough, resilient Chinese lines. But the Fourteenth has a consolation of sorts: its men know that they are contributing to a much greater show. Every ship sunk and every plane shot down by Chennault's men lessens the Jap potential in more active theaters of war. A young colonel of the Fourteenth commented: "We're a thorn in their side. We aren't serious but we hurt. The Japs are like boxers: if they take...
Horizontal Man. Ranney reasoned: Why not drill horizontally for oil, as miners dig coal? He designed a"Ranney-well" for oil mining - a vertical, concrete-lined shaft, sunk to the oil level, and a circular chamber at the bottom from which drillers might bore horizontally into the surrounding layer of oil sandstone. By drilling 24 holes, each radiating...
...Beirut, diplomats labored and negotiated. General Georges Catroux, rushed in as trouble shooter for General Charles de Gaulle and the French Committee, worked late, his sunken cheeks grey with fatigue, his deep-sunk eyes blazing with anger at "the plot." The existence of "the plot"-to build up British influence in the Levant at French expense-was taken for granted even by sobersided Frenchmen, although any such sinister motives were hotly denied by British Minister Sir Edward Spears and U.S. Diplomatic Agent George Wadsworth...