Word: torpedoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia the Germans are using a wheeled anti-tank torpedo, as big as a motorcycle sidecar, electrically guided and detonated by a cable trailing from the torpedo to the operator. The Russian defense: cutting the cable...
...Rhine. >Italy is a springboard to the Balkans, where the passes and valleys, although few and difficult, lead to the vital Danube basin, a possible junction with the Red Army, and the shaky Nazi back door. Last week Allied sea power, in the form of a flotilla of torpedo boats, raided Albanian waters, exchanged fire with shore batteries, sank two enemy merchantmen. Italy is a base of air attack on Germany -directly from airdromes in Italy, by shuttle to & from Great Britain...
Only one thing was lacking: actual invasion. Motor torpedo boats snarled along the Channel coasts of France and the Lowlands. A convoy of warships and troop ships appeared in mid-Channel, where German reconnaissance was sure to see them. The Germans saw, too clearly. Judging this display for what it was-a climax to extensive invasion maneuvers in Britain - the Luftwaffe sent up few planes to be shot down by lurking Allied airmen. But, through a night and the following day, the R.A.F. and the U.S. Eighth Air Force attacked a selected strip of French coastland, and targets behind...
...newest fighter is a direct descendant of the Wildcat and a factory mate of the Navy's crack Avenger torpedo plane. Its name: the Grumman Hellcat. This and little more the Navy announced, along with the news that a task force had crept close to the Jap's Marcus Island, thoroughly plastered it with shot and bombs from Hellcats and Avengers...
...Pacific Fleet: 80% of little Marcus Island's military installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded Rear Admiral Charles Alan ("Baldy") Pownall, retired...