Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the towering, snow-swatched cliff in conquered Norway's Trondheim Fjord the Tirpitz lay, 35,000 tons or more of naval might. No R.A.F. bomb or torpedo had yet shaken...
...advantage: an inner line of both naval and air bases to protect German supply routes and to launch attacks on the outer Allied routes. The Germans also have enough naval power at hand to give the Allies serious contest: the mighty Tirpitz, which apparently escaped unharmed from a recent torpedo-plane attack; the smaller Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, several cruisers and at least aircraft carrier...
...Panama Canal. The Navy last week permitted pictures to be printed of a fleet of 77-foot shallow-draft mosquito boats maneuvering off the Canal, slamming over the water at So m.p.h., armed with 50-caliber anti-aircraft guns and bearing in their powerful little bodies a pack of torpedoes. No submarine cares to surface in an area where the little motor torpedo boats operate on the alert, because a PT can run down any craft afloat, and is 100% effective at the close ranges in which it operates...
Sabotage. S. K. reports for the first time several sabotage successes by the underground, including the blowing up of the torpedo factory at the Pola naval base. But the group's sabotage was hampered by Fascist laws forbidding workers to shift jobs. The group asked S. K. if his friend Pinelli could put the necessary transfers through the war ministry. Pinelli stared out the window a while, then said yes. Soon his fine Italian hand had set off the biggest of the Matteotti's explosions: of the buried oil reservoirs at the Spezia naval base...
...Yard. Every present and former inhabitant of Matthews remembers Vic's bellowing summons to the telephone and his remarkable knack for knowing all there is to know around the Yard. He was also noted for his colorful tap-dancing, and his demonstration of the correct manner to fire a torpedo...