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Shortly before midnight, the Higbee's sonarman sat up straight before his dials and scopes. Through the earphones came an unmistakable, high-pitched whine. He punched a floor switch with his foot, barked out an electrifying message to the bridge. "Torpedo sounds . . . torpedo sounds...
Because the powerful new catapult should often make it unnecessary for a ship to steam into the wind for long periods to get its planes away, the British Admiralty expects it to revolutionize naval air tactics. If it works as well with heavy U.S. attack bombers and torpedo planes as it has in tests with lighter planes of the Fleet Air Arm, it will be installed as standard equipment in carriers of the British, Australian and Canadian navies, may also be adopted...
...been christened Nautilus, and the best-remembered of them was the monster 3,000-ton boat of World War II fame. Launched in 1930, she was huge and .deadly, twice as big as ordinary fleet boats, with a pair of six-inch guns, two decks and six 21-inch torpedo tubes. Before she was scrapped because of old age in 1946, World War II's Nautilus went on 14 successful patrols, was the first U.S. sub to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier (the 10,000-ton Soryu, at Midway), and landed raiders before the invasions of Tarawa, Makin...
...ultra modernists were scarcely better. Dominating their wing were a jittering mobile of wire and red fins by Alexander Calder, hung incongruously under the museum's vaulted ceiling, and Alexander Archipenko's Figure, an enormous 14-ft. object of aluminum-painted iron which resembled an upended torpedo. The pleasantest of the pure abstractions was David Smith's lively Flight, which whisked round corners, took unexpected dips with the carefully tracked abandon of a rollercoaster...
...Sharpest cutlass on the (Holy Cross) guard squad is weilded by Chet Millett, a star on the rise, who leads his drop-out plays like a swooshing torpedo. --From the 1951 Football Annual