Word: torpedoes
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...ring up the win. Left forward Boyce led the winners with ten markers, while Francke and Flynn, at center and the other forward registered seven and six respectively. The B team will not be with the Varsity when it travels to Melville, Rhode Island, to meet the Metor Torpedo Boat S.T.C. tomorrow...
...Essex-class carriers flew two squadrons of new-type Chance-Vought Corsair fighters, piloted by Marine Corps aviators. The marines long ago had won their fight to fly from escort carriers (TIME, Oct. 23), but this was different; this was the big time. They went as escort for Avenger torpedo bombers. Grumman Hellcats with Navy pilots made up the rest of this carrier's complement. It had no dive-bombers-McCain and Thach never had believed in dive-bombers...
Smitty has been bombing Japs since the beginning of the war and has flown torpedo bombers more hours than any other living man in the Navy. Last week he was still at it, flying off an Essex-class carrier near the Philippines. Like Ty Cobb in his later years, Smitty now automatically sets a record every time he goes...
...Zero riddled my radio and my armor plate and my radioman's armor plate, then shot up one of my gas tanks. I didn't think we had a chance so I went on in and got up close to the Jap carrier before I let the torpedo go. I think I got a hit. Mostly I was saying, 'Mom, I'm afraid you'll never get that picture...
...many heroes of the day was Machinist's Mate Robert R. Scott, whose station was below decks at an air-compressing machine supplying the 5-inch guns of the California. A torpedo blast ruptured his compartment, and oil and water began to pour in. Scott's companions got out. Scott yelled: "I'll stay here and give them air as long as the guns are going." They closed the door on his compartment to save the rest of the ship from being flooded. Scott stayed and supplied air to clear the gun barrels until he was drowned...