Word: torpedoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...destruction of enemy shipping." The commander of this force was last week identified as Air Vice Marshal Sir Hugh Pughe Lloyd, a short, thickset, rough, gruff veteran flyer who was commander of Britain's Mediterranean air forces in 1941-42. One day last week his Beaufighters caught enemy torpedo-bombers trying to attack Allied naval forces, shot down...
When it came to raising the money, the House Appropriations Committee turned the ditch down again last fortnight, 21-to-19. This penny-pinching attitude followed last-minute testimony from George A. Wilson, assistant to Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes. Wilson, sent to the Hill to torpedo the canal and to plug for pipelines, was unfortunately required to be moderately optimistic about the East Coast fuel situation for next fall. Subsequently, as the No. 1 crier of "Wolf! Wolf!" his boss has been putting out alarmed statements that next winter's oil situation may be tough (though it should...
...world. But they did not agree. Dive-bombing, conceived and brought to its highest perfection by the U.S. Navy, is still thoroughly alive in the U.S. forces. In the Pacific, the Douglas Dauntless (SBD) is still the most effective aerial weapon in the fleet, has done more damage than torpedo planes. Result of its showing: the Army Air Forces is now gladly taking instruction from Navy airmen on dive-bombing technique, and has taken up the SBD, which the Air Forces call...
...Corner," an austere office in the sprawling Navy building, officers and their civilian helpers could afford to grin. The returns were all in. Their charges, the skittering, mighty midgets that the Navy calls motor torpedo boats, had well and truly proved their worth. In the Philippines they had shown themselves first-class weapons in a last-ditch fight. In the Solomons they had proved more: that they were indispensable in the defense of any beachhead...
...perfect setup. By torpedo and the swiftness of their run, the PTs sank one destroyer, damaged two. Again the Jap task force turned back. From that night's work, three PTs did not return. But, they had added the last figure to an imposing column: in less than four months in the Solomons, PT Corner's high-speed craft had sunk or damaged more than 250,000 tons of Japanese shipping...