Word: torpedo
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...kids fighting the war, Seaman Jack Cooper had his next leave mapped out. He was going back to Elkhart, Ind., marry his girl Helen (he called her "Big Eyes"), put away some home-cooked meals. Like tens of thousands of others, Cooper never made it. Radioman on a Navy torpedo plane, he was shot down in the Pacific by the Japs, drifted for "weeks alone on a rubber raft. More than a month later a Navy vessel found the frail craft with Cooper's body and on paper leaves in his wallet a record of what a kid thinks...
...heavy torpedo was Ralph Ellsworth from Texas, 9.7 man for the 100 and perhaps the best tailback in the country...
...first day, when Crerar put ashore his first 10,000 men, the Canadians had their own ships - destroyers, frigates, corvettes, minesweepers, torpedo boats, landing ships - and their own air cover...
Down U-Boats. The Japs also respect a smaller brother of the Hellcat, the Wildcat fighter, and a halfbrother, the Avenger, a torpedo bomber. The Germans learned to respect them also in the once nip-&-tuck Battle of the Atlantic. With a "now-it-can-be-told" flourish, the Navy has let out the news that the most potent weapon of all against the U-boats were Wildcats, flying from baby flattops, and rocket-firing Avengers. In one six-month period, these planes sent 31 U-boats to the bottom, more than half of the entire total sunk...
...razed Second Avenue elevated railway. But Grumman was still crowded for space. Wildcat and Avenger production was moved into General Motors' Eastern air craft division at Linden, N.J. The pattern which, in effect, made Grumman main purveyor to the Navy had been set. Now all the fighters and torpedo planes on most Navy carriers are Grumman-designed planes. This, more than words, shows what the Navy thinks of Grumman...