Word: torpedoings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lampedusa is eight square miles of rock, 80 miles east of Tunisia, 100 miles west of Malta. Most of it is rugged, but there is flat land at one end where an airfield has been built, and a small harbor on the south, reported to be a torpedo-boat base. The airfield was attacked from Malta last week...
Sooner than most, he had recognized that Germany's hope on the high seas, in this war as in the last, lay in the slender, lonely little craft effectively typed "torpedo carriers." When he took the supreme command, he pledged: "The entire German Navy will henceforth be put into the service of inexorable U-boat warfare." From his headquarters somewhere in Axis Europe last week, Doenitz wielded a potent weapon...
...seemed to follow the routine peacetime patterns: offers, counteroffers, the appearance (and failure) of a Government conciliator, the transfer of New York negotiations to Washington. John Lewis stood fast: he wanted to crack the Little Steel wage formula with a $2-a-day raise for his men and to torpedo WLB (as he had sunk its predecessor, the National Defense Mediation Board). But what he was really after was a showdown with the President. John Lewis is not at all afraid of the Champ; the Champ, after years of trial bouts, is not so keen for the battle...
Again, Senator Truman. Hardly had Patterson and Ickes finished mortar-firing on Jeffers when the Navy let go a torpedo, too. The condensers, valves and other instruments which Bill Jeffers had snatched from the high-octane program the Navy must also have for its escort program. The Navy also wanted Jeffers stripped of his priority...
...13th day out they knew they were in for trouble. High above, two enemy planes had circled time & again. That night, when the torpedo struck, the noise was like the slamming of a bulkhead door. The big ship rolled slowly over on her side, then plunged...