Word: torpedoings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Group Twelve, crack bomber-torpedo-fighter outfit of a famed U.S. carrier, was back in the U.S. last week after 15 months of campaigning from Pearl Harbor to Trincomalee. By their own account, there was not a hero among them...
From the outskirts American troops could hear the Germans setting off demolition charges. One night the Nazis tried to sneak valuable technicians and equipment out in seven merchant ships. British torpedo boats caught them, sank two, damaged three more, chased the convoy to shelter in the Channel Islands...
...first D-day air strike began at,7 o'clock as dozens of dive bombers, torpedo bombers and, fighters tossed in the air over Saipan. There was still fairly intense antiaircraft fire, although the previous two days' strikes had completely eliminated all Jap air resistance...
Aboard his flagship Spruance considered. If Torpedo Eight withdrew, the Japs would have time to get their planes into the air and be ready to ward off the attacks of other U.S. planes. He made his solemn calculations with human lives and ordered: "Attack at once...
...Torpedo Eight attacked, kept Jap fighters occupied until other U.S. squadrons could get to the scene. All 15 planes were shot down. Only one of Torpedo Eight's 30 airmen survived. But Spruance's decision and Torpedo Eight's courageous assault paved the way for the devastation visited on the Japs before the end of that...