Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mediterranean attack was part of a larger sea & air action. By heavily escorted convoys from Gibraltar and Alexandria, the British tried to get supplies into battered Malta and to the retreating Eighth Army at Tobruk (see p. 20). Italo-German warships, planes, submarines and torpedo boats grabbed their chance, tried to knock out the bulk of Britain's remaining Mediterranean Fleet. Thanks partly to Colonel Halverson's roving bombers, the Axis failed in its main objective. But the British lost heavily, were able to claim only a limited success in getting the convoy through...
...their bomb-sights, proved that those secret U.S. instruments work superbly. Twenty bombs plastered one of the battleships, 15 the other. Said the flight commander, Major Alfred F. Kalberer, of LaFayette, Ind.: "It was like shooting fish in a barrel." Unhappily, the fish refused to die. Later an R.A.F. torpedo slowed one of the battleships, sank the bombed cruiser...
Proof. The proof switched to the Navy: to Taranto, where British pilots in antique planes proved that the aircraft could sink men-of-war; to the battle against the Bismarck, where they proved that the aerial torpedo could cripple the finest best-protected battleship afloat...
...been sound asleep, the U.S. is a long way out in front. Grumman's famed Wildcat fighters are the best carrier craft in the world, will soon have to fight for their title with another U.S. product: Vought-Sikorsky's gull-winged Corsair. Grumman's new torpedo-plane Avenger has no equal in foreign services. Consolidated's Catalinas have piled up an unequaled record for reliable scouting. And bigger and faster flying boats are coming: Consolidated's four-engined Coronado, Martin's gargantuan Mars...
...accurate is Fahey's mental picture of Navy equipment that in reading an appropriations bill he may spot not merely additions to the Fleet, but small changes in ships in service. From a sheet of figures, where an ordinary layman detects only digits, he comes up with funnels, torpedo tubes, extra speed, six new submarines, degaussing gear, winches. But this strange genius takes no notes. His filing system is all between the ears...