Word: torpedoed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clearly what was coming, the Finns have stored surprising amounts of ammunition. From Sweden they got guns, not too many but very good ones, especially the first class Bofors anti-aircrafts. Their little fleet could do with support from Sweden's crack one, being mostly submarines, gunboats, motor torpedo boats, but Russia's clumsy battleships draw too much water to go close to shore. Chief disadvantage of the Finns is in the air, whence plenty of hell will rain on them before they win or lose. One young Finnish fighter pilot was credited in the first two days...
...been spared from getting down to cases about tanks, torpedo tubes, guns, engines, propeller shafts, observation instruments, etc. Manufacturing these requires one of the few basic materials the U. S. happens to lack-tin. So does manufacturing tin cans to hold the No. 1 necessity of war and peace-food...
...torpedo which, if it misses the target ship on the first try, turns around and tries again...
LONDON--The British Admiralty tonight admitted that "a torpedo or a mine" damaged the new 10,000-ten cruiser Belfast near the entrance to the Firth of Forth Tuesday, the same night that a mine sank the destroyer-Gipsy...
...When the first torpedo struck, most of Royal Oak's officers & men scurried to battle stations beneath the ship's armor, thinking a plane must be bombing; a submarine attack was unthinkable...