Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Harold W. Hunter '48 and James S. Roberts '47 will represent Harvard in the annual Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament, to be launched Monday, June 25, at Montclair, New Jersey. Tentative Baseball Schedule (Incomplete) Wed. July 18 Camp Edwards away Sat. July 21 Holy Cross Wed. July 25 Motor Torpedo Boat School away Sat. July 28 Quonset Aircraft away Wed. August 1 Camp Edwards Sat. August 4 Holy Cross away Sat. August 11 Motor Torpedo Boat School
...Allies were less successful in coping with another once-secret Nazi weapon, according to a German submarine commander at Flensburg last week. He said that the acoustic torpedo (TIME, Oct. 11, 1943), fitted with a microphone-controlled steering apparatus which made it follow the sound of a ship's propellers, proved 90% more effective than older models...
...Varsity will take the field tomorrow afternoon against Motor Torpedo Boat S.T.C. at Melville, Rhode Island...
...British Admiralty announced that a Japanese 10,000-ton, eight-inch-gun cruiser had been attacked by torpedo planes and finished by five British destroyers in the Malacca Strait off Penang, Malaya...
...planes came from carriers, from Iwo, from the Marianas-and their targets were the home islands of Japan. They were torpedo planes, dive bombers, at least three varieties of fighters and the great B-29 Superforts. They struck in daylight and at night from all directions and they hit with everything-six-pound jellied-gasoline fire bombs, high-explosive factory busters and rockets. The tempo grew faster & faster. Latest scores...