Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night the Jap Navy was back again, lobbing more shells into U.S. shore positions. U.S. torpedo boats went into action for the first time, probably hit a cruiser...
Sept. 12.-Aircraft and submarines started shadowing the convoy. Six bombers made a high-level attack. Then 40 to 50 torpedo bombers came down in close formation. Ack-ack got five. Carrier-based planes got five more. Enemy mine layers then appeared, and the convoy's minesweepers went into action. Later nine more torpedo bombers attacked, but were kept at a safe distance. Two were downed. At dusk came a third contingent of twelve. Six were sent crashing into...
There was no warning, just the explosion of the torpedo. As the sea poured in, the merchantman began to careen. Voices of people rose above the crashing of furniture, dishes and gear. The ship rolled over, spilling wreckage and humanity into the ocean...
Month ago I.N.S.'s Jack Singer got aboard a torpedo plane and watched U.S. Navy flyers set the Jap carrier Ryuzyo afire off the Solomon Islands. His own bomber slipped a torpedo into the ship from less than 800 yards, survived some stubborn Jap Zeros, got home. Singer figured he was lucky to get back alive. But it made a swell combat story...
...young men who told it to veteran War Correspondent Bill White, son of the famous editor, were four officers of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3, almost the last active remnants of the crew that brought General Douglas MacArthur safely out of the Philippines...