Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Japanese ships reached Rabaul, a U.S. Navy carrier force of 100 planes hit them. Torpedo planes and dive-bombers reported hits on five heavy cruisers and a light cruiser. Torpedoes alone hit two destroyers and a sixth heavy cruiser. Dive-bombers hit a second light cruiser. Later, Army planes bombed port, installations at Rabaul, claimed hits on a merchant ship...
...year after our entry into the war the Japanese were still using a torpedo with a far larger charge of explosives than ours; there were many early complaints about the inadequacy of our torpedo equipment. Slowly we have overcome this initial enemy advantage, although the Germans have recently been using an acoustic-magnetic-contact type of torpedo that may well be more advanced than anything we have...
...destroyer slipped in close, let go a torpedo. The Helena dodged, wheeled, finished off the attacker, which was already under fire from another U.S. ship. The enemy fleet turned and fled...
...cruised with a task force looking for Japs, escorted convoys, dodged a second torpedo attack-this time from a submarine. She put in one busy day silencing shore batteries which had bracketed U.S. transports unloading at Guadalcanal. The Japs sent over bombers. The Helena got four of the nine shot down by the U.S. ships...
TIME Correspondent Duncan Norton-Taylor, on the bridge of another U.S. ship, was an eyewitness. He cabled: "Five of their ships died in our first onslaught. Others spoke back . . . but soon it was plain they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads...