Word: torpedo
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...mission was one of peacetime training. Few of her complement had seen action and officers admitted that her men were "below standards desirable for combat." They were still below standard when the Juneau headed north about a fortnight ago under wartime orders. Then one day the lookout spotted four torpedo boats bearing down on the ship...
...Launched at Kearny, N.J. in 1945 and named after the famed, ill-fated 6,000-ton cruiser Juneau, which was blown up by a Jap torpedo on Nov. 14, 1942 at the southern end of "The Slot," the strip of water running northwest-southeast through the Solomon Islands. All but ten of the Juneau's crew were lost, including the five Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, Iowa...
...Valley Forge struck airfields, trains and bridges near the Communist capital of Pyongyang. British Firefly bombers and Seafire fighters (carrier version of Britain's famed Spitfire) struck from the carrier Triumph, hit similar targets farther to the south. Earlier, U.S.British naval units sank five or six attacking Communist torpedo boats off Samchok. At week's end a Red shore battery scored a hit on the British cruiser Jamaica. The toll: six dead, three wounded. They were the first British naval casualties of the Korean...
...Russians offered the G.I.s 7,000 schillings ($269) to kidnap Eder, who was a night watchman in a Vienna radio-manufacturing plant and, in spy parlance, a "torpedo," i.e., an agent who informed against the Russians. For a while he had also informed the Russians about the West, but the Reds discovered that he took pay from both sides. They decided that he had better be put out of the way. Frankey and Abel accepted the commission. They lured Eder into a borrowed jeep by telling him that he was wanted by U.S. authorities. After Eder had been delivered...
...Atomic Age has also reached the cereal box. A while back, one brand in cahoots with the Lone Ranger, came out with an "Atomic Energy Ring." Built in the shape of a torpedo, the ring was "guaranteed to contain genuine atoms," and, in a reassuring Note to Parents, it was further guaranteed that "the atomic energy contained in this ring is absolutely harmless...