Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Olaf Eckstrom had been commanding the 8,272-ton, "heavily loaded" tanker Montebello only five hours when a torpedo ripped through the port side, under the bridge. It knocked out the ship's radio and power plant. In pre-dawn darkness the crew struggled with the lifeboats as the submarine opened up with its deck gun, scoring only one hit (in the Montebello's forepart) out of "eight or ten" shots. Despite strafing machine-gun fire, the 36 officers and crew pulled to safety, cursing the attackers. Said Captain Eckstrom...
...Torpedo" game, started by a Buffalo aircraft engineer, caught on quickly. Its rules: for every enemy battleship sunk by the U.S., the player buys $5 worth of defense stamps, for an airplane carrier $4, cruiser $3, destroyer $2, submarine $1, any other ship...
...Atlantic the Navy had "probably sunk or damaged at least 14 enemy submarines." In the Pacific, he added, "our naval forces have already effectively dealt with several Japanese submarines." Off the Pacific Coast, 200 miles north of San Francisco, a submarine sank the tanker Emidio by gunfire and torpedo a few miles off Blunt's Reef, then sank three lifeboats as the crew fled. The Navy said 22 crew members were missing. Farther south the tanker Agwiworld, 20 miles off Santa Cruz, was attacked by a submarine which appeared 500 yards away...
From the bridge of the aircraft carrier Illustrious last January Larry Allen got one of the best action stories of the war, when he (and the Illustrious) miraculously survived a savage, seven-hour attack of 50 Stukas and torpedo planes. Singed and blown down a hatchway, he stuck to the ship as it was bombed again at Malta. After that nervy feat of reporting, Rear Admiral Lyster declared that Allen was the "darling" of the British Mediterranean fleet...
Searchlights and star shells stabbed suddenly through the pre-dawn darkness over the central Mediterranean one night last week. An Italian squadron of two cruisers, an E-boat (MAS) and a torpedo boat were caught off guard. From behind the lights came volleys of shells and torpedoes. One cruiser caught fire, exploded, dived to the bottom. The second blazed fiercely. The E-boat sank. The torpedo boat, badly crippled, may have escaped...