Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flying from carriers, Navy fighter pilots have fewer chances to fight than Army pilots. When they do go out, they usually fly as escorts for bombers and torpedo planes, dare not leave their charges to go hunting...
...McCampbell, an elderly airman as fighter pilots go, failed to bag a single Jap until he reached Saipan last June. Then he had still another handicap: he was promoted to group commander. i.e., battle boss of all the planes of one carrier, and had to direct dive bombers and torpedo planes as well as his fighters. But the Pacific war was moving west and the carriers were closing on the enemy. McCampbell's fighter squadron, which had not yet downed a single Jap, was getting set to start scoring...
...Morterfication," cried veteran Hu Flung Huey oeC, Schmidten with momentary forchodings, "it can't be worse than Fritts. PT says they'll torpedo us, but they'll have to Shew me. I Thom my nose at Secrest of them who aims to Pierce John's smirchless line. Vicario ball through the devil's Zoeller stairs. Navin can stop us. We're not Cowen...
Coach Henry Lamar of the Crimson eleven has revamped his starting lineup for what may be the Crimson's toughest contest of the season, tomorrow's encounter, on Soldiers Field at 2:30 o'clock, with the Night Raiders from the Melville, R. I., Motor Torpedo Boat School...
...players and with only a week of practice behind them since the start of the new term, the Crimson informal Varsity gridmen will face their strongest opponents of the 1944 season Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field, when they will oppose the powerful eleven from the McIville, R. I., Motor Torpedo Boat School...