Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newest (tenth) grandchild, two-month-old Haven Roosevelt (who declined to smile for Father John and Grandfather Franklin). At Boston Navy Yard Mr. Roosevelt saw eight destroyers under construction. At the Watertown Arsenal there was the Army's new 90-mm. antiaircraft gun. He saw the torpedo station, Navy Training Station and War College at Newport, R. I., the new naval air base at Quonset Point, submarines at New London. Conn. All these he judged to be proof that U. S. Defense was well along, would be still further along by late fall...
...struck time & again at Devonport, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Brighton, Newhaven, Dover, especially hard at the bustling docks of the Thames Estuary. Shipping in the English Channel-embattled Britain's turbulent moat only 22 miles wide at its narrowest (Dover-Calais)-had been incessantly attacked by German aircraft and motor torpedo boats based just across the water in sight of Britain's headlands. Last week the attacks reached crescendo...
...because the British had mined St. George's Channel between Eire and Wales. Messerschmitt fighters accompanying Nazi bombers to Britain started carrying one medium-sized bomb apiece. Everything that flew over Britain now had something to leave there. The Nazi High Command claimed that its submarines, motor torpedo boats, bombers sank more than 200,000 tons of British ships during the week, including the destroyers Brazen and Wren (both admitted...
Alongside the Meknès whirled a Nazi motor torpedo boat. The French captain was given five minutes to abandon ship. When he tried to signal his ship's name and nationality, the Germans cut him short with machine guns. Then came a torpedo. Down went the Meknès. Dead: 383. The Germans (and the Petain Government of France) blamed Britain for not notifying them to obtain safe passage for the Mekn...
...Navy, which turned it down. Subsequently Kirsten disposed of the manufacturing rights in Germany. The professor has figures to show that small craft of a half-dozen nations, totaling 495,000 h.p., operated last year with cycloidal propellers manufactured in Germany. He believes that German torpedo boats now fighting in the English Channel are equipped with cycloidals, and he wishes they weren't because he is a rabid Hitler-hater. But he observed last week that there is still time for the U. S. to use cycloidal propulsion for airplanes. Two cycloidals mounted on either side of the fuselage...