Word: torpedoes
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...long-dominant Americans especially expected to excel in the individual free sprints, the glamour events, as if they were a birthright. The favorite: Biondi, the 1988 five-gold champion who earns six figures posing for Ray Ban sunglasses and drinking Evian water. And should the California torpedo fail, there would be ample backup on the U.S. team, including Tom Jager, the 1988 silver medalist who earns a living swimming against Biondi in exhibition races. Los tiburones yanqui -- the Yankee sharks -- the Spanish sportswriters dubbed them...
...that the East Germans are no longer a threat, the American women plan to torpedo the competition...
...carrier left, the Hiryu, and one carrier could still sting, fatally. "Bogeys, 32 miles, closing!" cried the Yorktown's radar officer. A dozen fighters from the Yorktown were circling overhead, and more than twice as many antiaircraft guns were firing, when the Hiryu's dive bombers and torpedo bombers struck. As the Yorktown's guns demolished one attacking bomber, its bomb exploded with a huge orange flash behind the carrier's bridge. Then another two bombs penetrated deep below decks, and the carrier's whole bow went up in flames. The Yorktown was doomed (though 2,270 men -- nearly...
...sooner had the Hiryu's torpedo bombers returned to their ship than they were ordered out again. But few were in shape to go -- five dive bombers and four torpedo planes -- and their crews were so exhausted that the commander ordered a break before the next takeoffs. The rice balls were just being served when the alarm sounded: "Enemy dive bombers directly overhead." Swooping down, planes from the Enterprise and the dying Yorktown started the fires that would destroy the Hiryu...
...were outboard of the Helena, a cruiser. A torpedo went under us, slammed into the Helena and loosened our plates. We started to take on water. Several minutes later I copied the famous message, "Air raid on Pearl Harbor. This is no drill." We're tilting -- I know this is no drill...