Word: torpedoed
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...sacking. Shimada will keep his other job as Chief of Naval Staff, thus be able to devote full time to finding tactical remedies for the Empire's critical plight in the Pacific. His successor as Naval Minister: Admiral Naokuni Nomura,* expert in submarine and torpedo techniques...
...Group Twelve, crack bomber-torpedo-fighter outfit of a famed U.S. carrier, was back in the U.S. last week after 15 months of campaigning from Pearl Harbor to Trincomalee. By their own account, there was not a hero among them...
From the outskirts American troops could hear the Germans setting off demolition charges. One night the Nazis tried to sneak valuable technicians and equipment out in seven merchant ships. British torpedo boats caught them, sank two, damaged three more, chased the convoy to shelter in the Channel Islands...
...first D-day air strike began at,7 o'clock as dozens of dive bombers, torpedo bombers and, fighters tossed in the air over Saipan. There was still fairly intense antiaircraft fire, although the previous two days' strikes had completely eliminated all Jap air resistance...
...Torpedo Eight attacked, kept Jap fighters occupied until other U.S. squadrons could get to the scene. All 15 planes were shot down. Only one of Torpedo Eight's 30 airmen survived. But Spruance's decision and Torpedo Eight's courageous assault paved the way for the devastation visited on the Japs before the end of that...