Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands quickly noted that she was trim and tidy, that she was correctly dressed overall to honor the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday. Royal Navy liaison officers also marked her power (twelve 6-in. guns in paired turrets fore & aft, twelve dual-purpose guns, ten torpedo tubes, double sets of minelaying cables) and her probable speed (35 knots). Said the Admiralty: "We find her very interesting...
...Allied help during World War II, and the advice of German experts afterwards, "the most up-to-date technical equipment has been developed in their latest ships." Though without aircraft carriers, Russia has a powerful land-based naval air force "which could be used either for bombing or torpedo attacks or for minelaying." The most alarming figure was Russia's submarine force, which should not have come as a surprise to any well-informed Briton. Nonetheless, talk of 350 Russian subs recalls to Britons Admiral Doenitz's boast that with 300 U-boats he could have bottled...
...trance, he had one of his spells, with "the shakes." In a second session he reported seeing a shipwreck, but tried to ignore it. At last, prodded by the therapist, he recalled and relived his own shipwreck of seven years before, when many of his buddies died in a torpedo attack. Conscious again, he admitted that he had been brooding and dreaming about that attack. He was shown that his spells were a device to shut it out. Instead of surgery, he was told to go back to the psychiatrist for more treatment...
...came before Commander Schaeffer's U-977 had fired a torpedo. Schaeffer assembled his crew, many of them teenagers, and filled them with scary bilge about what they could expect in postwar Germany-how all its males would no doubt be sterilized and the country turned into a goat pasture. He added another naive touch which he obviously hopes will take in 1953's reader, to the effect that all Allies had fought not out of hatred of Nazism, "as they have pretended-for Naziism ended with the death of Hitler-but of the people of Germany themselves...
...night, the engineer who talked in Munich last week was at the throttle, driving a train of tank cars for Russia through a thick fog after 18 straight hours on the job. At last he dozed off. An alert switchman dropped a warning torpedo underneath his wheels in time to avoid a collision, but the young engineer was promptly arrested for sabotage. This is the rest of the story as he told...