Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON-The lives of 1590 Americans, most of them war refugees, hung in the balance for 10 agonizing minutes today off the coast of Portugal when an unidentified submarine stopped the luxury liner Washington and threatened to torpedo...
...have to go in surface transports. British mines threaten these, so before the parachutists take off Phase 2 of the German plan would be minesweeping. Several narrow channels through the minefields might be swept in one dark night. The Nazi minesweepers would be guarded by swift, shallow-draft motor torpedo boats. Light units of the British Fleet would face a test of vigilance and daring that night and the next dawn, when the transports and their German naval and air escorts set out on William the Conqueror's path...
...Detroit, loss of exports caused layoffs. Small manufacturers called the Board of Commerce for information on how to get war orders. Ford waited for a Government green light to start making torpedo boats. In plants with Army & Navy contracts, several hundred aliens were about to be fired. In two weeks, Bohn Aluminum & Brass fired...
...Three light cruisers, one torpedo cruiser, eight destroyers, six torpedo boats, 23 submarines, nine minelayers. But many Dutch cows were drowned by the defense floods...
There were six light cruisers, 29 destroyers, 14 submarines, a host of mine layers, torpedo boats, etc. As yet unlet were contracts for 23 more warships, including two 45,500-ton superdreadnaughts...