Word: torpedoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, British royal princesses, took a leaf from their sailor father's logbook. With 30 other girls of the Windsor Sea Rangers Troop, they went down to the sea for a few days in a motor torpedo boat. Elizabeth, 20, lit the galley fire, peeled potatoes, made breakfast. Margaret Rose, 15, scrubbed the deck, polished up the brass...
...vengeance he called out 53,000 mine workers in 1941 and wrecked the Mediation Board which Franklin Roosevelt had set up in an effort to keep labor peace while the country armed for war. He split labor apart. Congress was so incensed that it was ready to torpedo national policy just to sink John Lewis...
Even the Japs had some better weapons than the U.S. In Tokyo last week, the Navy's Captain Allan L. Dunning reported that a Jap torpedo was superior to any developed by the U.S. or Britain. It carried more explosive farther and faster, and it left no telltale bubble trail...
...floated was hostile now, as the Houston twisted and turned in the geysers of near misses. Her speed and punch rocked the Japanese gunners off balance and they began firing at each other. Then, at midnight, a hit on her forecastle illuminated the Houston and the fire thickened. A torpedo crashed into the after engine room, exploding in a sheet of flames. Once the battle surged to such close quarters that U.S. sailors opened up with pistols and automatic rifles on enemy small craft which were crowding...
...Captain Alfred H. Rooks reluctantly gave the order to abandon ship. Before it could be executed he was killed. Another torpedo struck home. The Houston lay dead in the water. For a few minutes she heeled far over to starboard. Then, at 12:45, on even keel, she disappeared, taking with her 500 of her dead and wounded crew. In the water that night, and later in prison camp, 227 more died. Of her whole complement, only 260 lived to tell the great tale...