Word: torpedoings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokyo Radio boasted last week that three more Jap admirals had been killed in action. Proud total since Sept. 1: 22. By Tokyo's account, one of last week's casualties, Vice Admiral Nashaharu Arima, crashed his torpedo bomber into a U.S. aircraft carrier. The U.S. Navy acknowledged no such damage...
...admiral would be flying a torpedo bomber Tokyo did not even attempt to make clear. But there was a possible explanation in a recent speech by Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto, head of the central headquarters of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association. Cried Colonel Hashimoto: "We must crash into the enemy in suicidal attacks at the front and at home . . . the only thing for us to do is to decide to die, so this burning determination may take the form of firepower in the general war situation...
They first encountered reality at Makin. They did not distinguish themselves. After Kwajalein they were packed back to Pearl Harbor to rejoin their own group for more training. In March the Rippers were sent off again, this time with their bomber and torpedo squadron colleagues of Air Group Two, aboard an Essex-class carrier...
Carroll F. Getchell, Director of the H.A.A., revealed yesterday that two more contest have tentatively been added to the Varsity football schedule. The Crimson will probably face Tufts here on Saturday, November 11, and will meet the Melville, Rhode island, Motor Torpedo Boat School one week later...
...kids fighting the war, Seaman Jack Cooper had his next leave mapped out. He was going back to Elkhart, Ind., marry his girl Helen (he called her "Big Eyes"), put away some home-cooked meals. Like tens of thousands of others, Cooper never made it. Radioman on a Navy torpedo plane, he was shot down in the Pacific by the Japs, drifted for "weeks alone on a rubber raft. More than a month later a Navy vessel found the frail craft with Cooper's body and on paper leaves in his wallet a record of what a kid thinks...