Word: torpedo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born in St. Louis, broke up a foundering nightclub comedy team-he played straight man-to enlist in the Army in 1952. Sent to the Orient, he drifted onto the Pacific Stars and Stripes as a second-string movie reviewer, a job he regarded as license to torpedo everything...
...World War II, he had command of the Air Group on the aircraft carrier Saratoga, won a Distinguished Flying Cross for leading the first U.S. carrier strike of the war. A couple of weeks later he got a Navy Cross when his planes sank some Japanese ships in Torpedo Junction off the eastern Solomons. To ward the end of the war, he had com mand of the escort carrier Chenango when the ship earned a Navy Unit Commendation for operations off Okinawa...
...first glance, the two bombs appeared to be nothing special. One looked like a blunt-nosed torpedo; the other had the shape of a bulky, overweight blimp. So why, until last week, had the State Department suppressed all pictures of them for 15 secretive years...
...constant series of messages to Tokyo." In that stream was included information about the number and type of ships at Pearl Harbor, local defenses, location of fuel dumps, disposition of ships. He noted, among many other things, that U.S. battleships were often moored in pairs; this indicated that torpedo attacks against the inboard ships would be ineffectual. That report, he says, "caused a strong emphasis on dive-bombing with specially built bombs evolved from 16-in. armor-piercing shells...
...torpedo finder. Able to swim 2,000 ft. beneath the surface, it was built for the U.S. Navy by Vitro Laboratories, can be adapted for commercial use. The Solaris is an eerie, Jules Verne monster that probes the ocean floor with four 500-watt floodlights and a television eye. When it spots a lost torpedo or other wanted object, a giant crab's claw snaps out, hoists the catch back to the surface...