Word: torpedo
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...rear by knocking out so many evacuating ships. They claimed to have sunk a light and an auxiliary cruiser, a submarine, two gunboats, a "special vessel" and eight transports, including one of 30,000 tons; to have damaged a light cruiser, a destroyer, two "special vessels," one torpedo boat and ten transports; to have forced the beaching of a Dutch cruiser, a minelayer, a transport...
Scout bombers delivered the first blows at the Jap's main airdromes; torpedo planes followed them into his chief anchorages. Surface ships moved in on likely shore targets. From a Jap airdrome five bombers managed to take off, head for a carrier. A U.S. fighter set a Jap's engine afire...
...Five cruisers, eight destroyers, some 20 submarines, a swarm of small torpedo boats...
...Navy no longer reveals specific items on which it intends to spend the country's cash. Its new ships may range from 75-ft. torpedo boats to 45,000-ton battlewagons. To build them, shipyard facilities will have to be mightily increased. For shipyards alone, Congress has authorized an additional $750,000,000 (two Panama Canals...
...Lady Hawkins skittered across a slick, black ocean. Scarcely 100 yards away a U-boat reared up out of the sea for the brief space of 60 seconds. The raider fingered the Lady coldly with a pair of searchlights. Then the Lady Hawkins shuddered under the impact of a torpedo. Her forward mast crashed. Over on her side careened the 7,988-ton liner. Passengers and crew tumbled into the sea. A second torpedo exploded in the Lady Hawkins' engine room and her career ended...