Word: torpedoings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusk the German torpedo planes came in, skimming the grey, becalmed Mediterranean. One torpedo went by. Another hit the U.S.S. Lansdale square amidships, nearly split her in two. The destroyer began to sink...
Apparently war, like nature, may sometimes imitate art. While browsing through British Admiralty files for historical background on the self-propelled two-man torpedo, I came across this 1912 cartoon. Alsop's Ale (the hero's fuel) was Britain's favorite brew in 1912-as well known as Bass is today. The resemblance between Cartoonist Quick's conception and the real two-man article of today (TIME, May 1) is uncanny...
Barents Sea, made five low-level bomb and torpedo attacks, sank four transports and three escort craft, damaged two other transports, peppered a patrol ship and an E-boat...
They swarmed across Lake Sentani in amphibious landing craft, quickly captured the three Hollandia airfields. Except for scattered sniping, the only Jap opposition was an ineffectual 14-plane torpedo attack on a U.S. destroyer in Hollandia Bay and a single plane bombing of the Jap supply dump, which exploded like a string of firecrackers down two miles of beach...
...from the wreckage rose Seaman Johnnie Hutchins, mortally wounded and failing fast. He grasped the helm and turned the ship clear of the torpedo. Then he died with his hands clutched tight around the wheel...