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During World War II, Lieut. Per Edvard Danielsen's swashbuckling sea-raids against the Nazis made him something of a national hero. In 1941, as skipper of a motor torpedo boat, he helped strike one of the first blows against the Quisling government, in a Commando raid from Britain against Norway's Nazi-occupied island base of Maaloy...
Next morning eight torpedo-bearing Skyraiders came in to the dam on a wide arc, flying low between the mountains, ready for a quick run and a sharp pullout. The first two planes dropped their torpedoes in close parallel, blowing out completely a central floodgate. Four other Skyraiders dropped torpedoes; one of them tore a ten-foot hole in a second floodgate. Water poured out of the dam; minutes later, the Pukhan began to rise. From the U.S. Army to the U.S. Navy-which had never before used torpedoes on inland targets-went an enthusiastic "Well done...
...through World War II, submariners complained about the torpedoes issued to them. The men of the Silent Service hung up their impressive record with erratic "fish" that were seldom as good as those used by the enemy. Unpredictable U.S. torpedoes sometimes went off prematurely or never exploded at all. They were known to porpoise or to dive under targets, and at least two circled about with diabolical accuracy to sink the subs that had launched them. Last week the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance announced that, as part of a $500 million research and development program, it had developed...
...torpedo is said to be almost twice as fast as earlier models, and able to travel accurately to the operating depth of any known submarine. Small and maneuverable, it has its own Sonar for seeking out enemy craft that have killed their engines to ride out an attack in silence. No telltale wake of bubbles comes up from its chemically fueled motor, said the Navy, and it can be launched not only by submarines, but also by surface ships and airplanes. The Navy now expects to reinstall torpedo tubes on all warships smaller than heavy cruisers...
...dark of Thursday morning the Reds almost made it. One Chinese threw a dud grenade into a G.I.'s foxhole, then walloped him with a rifle. The G.I. clubbed the Chinese to death with his Garand. Red engineers blew a hole in the barbed wire with a bangalore torpedo. As Chinese infantry charged in, Sergeant Stewart Oshell's machine-gunners opened up, and 78 enemy bodies plugged...