Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Guadalcanal, Hersey spent a month at Pearl Harbor-and then two months on a carrier with a task-force in the South Pacific. His best story is about the bomber that saved one of the task-force ships by exploding a torpedo which had just been fired at it by a Japanese submarine. The plane actually dropped a bomb on the torpedo, exploded it a few hundreds yards from its target...
Marine pilots fly Navy planes: the chunky, tough, not-too-fast SBD for dive-bombing and scouting missions; the plucky little Grumman F4F for fighting (a winner every time if it can get enough initial altitude); the versatile, though somewhat delicate, TBF for torpedo missions and glide-bombing. Supporting the Marine squadrons have been Naval squadrons and Army pilots...
...member of the Class of 1934 and a graduate of the Law School, Lieut, Campbell worked with the aircraft squadron when the carrier went down before Japanese torpedo fire in the Battle of the Solomons. The subject of his talk was not revealed by ROTC officers last night, but it was understood to be of an instructive nature. Before the meeting, Lieut, Campbell will be the guest at diner of Captain George N. Barker, professor of Naval Science and Tactics, and Edward W. Garrison '43, president of the Naval Society...
...Three torpedo hits which struck near the Wasp's magazines and gasoline tanks set off a series of explosions and fires which soon made the carrier helpless...
Grumman TBF (Avenger) - singleengine, air-cooled. This plane made its battle debut at Midway. A bigger, more powerful and more advanced airplane than the once-standard Douglas Devastator, the TBF is the best carrier-based torpedo plane so far seen in action...