Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vengeance he called out 53,000 mine workers in 1941 and wrecked the Mediation Board which Franklin Roosevelt had set up in an effort to keep labor peace while the country armed for war. He split labor apart. Congress was so incensed that it was ready to torpedo national policy just to sink John Lewis...
Even the Japs had some better weapons than the U.S. In Tokyo last week, the Navy's Captain Allan L. Dunning reported that a Jap torpedo was superior to any developed by the U.S. or Britain. It carried more explosive farther and faster, and it left no telltale bubble trail...
...floated was hostile now, as the Houston twisted and turned in the geysers of near misses. Her speed and punch rocked the Japanese gunners off balance and they began firing at each other. Then, at midnight, a hit on her forecastle illuminated the Houston and the fire thickened. A torpedo crashed into the after engine room, exploding in a sheet of flames. Once the battle surged to such close quarters that U.S. sailors opened up with pistols and automatic rifles on enemy small craft which were crowding...
...Captain Alfred H. Rooks reluctantly gave the order to abandon ship. Before it could be executed he was killed. Another torpedo struck home. The Houston lay dead in the water. For a few minutes she heeled far over to starboard. Then, at 12:45, on even keel, she disappeared, taking with her 500 of her dead and wounded crew. In the water that night, and later in prison camp, 227 more died. Of her whole complement, only 260 lived to tell the great tale...
...Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 admittedly played a gallant role in the delaying action of the Philippine retreat. But MGM has succumbed to the usual temptation of ascribing too much glory to too small a company. What was originally an honest account of the P.T. boats' performance has now been magnified and somewhat distorted; too many guns and too much shooting have detracted from the realism which could have made this one of the few really good war pictures...