Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today he has six flying schools, more than 300 private planes and some 35 freight-flying lines at his field. No matter how harebrained their plans, Wehran is willing to let the freight flyers set up shop at his field. Some ex-Navy pilots flew in a folding-wing torpedo bomber a fortnight ago. In delivering freight, they plan to fold the wings, run the plane through the streets to their destination...
...Archerfish's skipper, Commander Joseph F. Enright, let go with a spread of torpedoes, and then "took her down." He heard one torpedo explode. Not until after the war did the U.S. know what had happened after that. The Japanese civilian workers had lost their heads. No one thought to shut the water-tight doors. Slowly, water welled into the Shinano. Six hours later, her Japanese skipper tucked a portrait of Emperor Hirohito under his arm, scrambled over the side and left the biggest carrier ever built to sink ignominiously, the victim of one torpedo...
...Torpedo Juice & Pioneers...
...made a similar arrest some time in September 1943 at Guadalcanal, while a sentry aboard ship. A sailor was celebrating the discovery of some torpedo juice (190 proof) and using an LCV for a taxi...
...many-armed U.S. Government last week was engaged in a tug-of-war with itself over Preston Tucker, designer of a rear-engined automobile named the Tucker 48 (once the Torpedo). The War Assets Administration had leased Tucker the $70 million surplus Chicago Dodge plant, world's largest. He had promised to have $15 million in cash on hand by July 1 to build cars...