Word: torpedoings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guinea, last September, U.S. invading forces ran into heavy fire, pressed on. Near the beach, the helmsman of LST 473 spotted a torpedo coming head on. Before he could make a move, a bomb struck the pilothouse and blasted him out of action...
...Torpedo gyros are now plentiful, but ball bearings are a bottleneck for the entire naval ordnance program...
Blue exhaust flames flicker like fireflies in the predawn darkness. On the flight decks of U.S. carriers, dive-bombers, torpedo planes and fighters are being revved tip. One by one they soar out, their red and green riding lights skimming lower over the shadowy superstructures of a multitude of warships. Gaining altitude they form in flights, circle, flock toward the dark horizon...
Paying Off. The results of this campaign are hard to gauge exactly, but they have begun to show. On the perimeter of her slowly diminishing empire, Japan nowadays rarely dares use freighters for supply (small barges, too shallow to torpedo, have to do most of the work...
Readers will find Tarawa the work of a crack reporter, the most vivid book on the Pacific war since Ira Wolfert's Torpedo 8. Many will find it stomach-turning in its horrifying depiction of battle. That was Author Sherrod's prime objective: "Our information services [have] failed to impress the people with the hard facts of war. . . . There is no easy way to win. . . . [There will] be many other bigger and bloodier Tarawas...