Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this work, I recently dropped by Jack's editing room to find him barricaded behind some 10,000 feet of film for the twelfth chapter, "The War at Sea." As he flicked the knob of his film viewer, I saw a periscope's view of a torpedo-blasted Japanese ship. Another strip showed another side of the submariner's life-a U.S. jazz trio playing a jam session 150 feet under the sea. He showed me many other interesting strips-a Navy plane's gun-camera record of dive-bombing a Japanese ship and an enemy...
This week Don Douglas' inventors-of-necessity announced a new device which may well save hundreds of lives: a sea-rescue life raft which can be shot torpedo-like from a plane. On contact with the water, it inflates itself, starts its own outboard motor, can then be guided by radio beam from the mother plane to floating survivors. Now Douglas engineers are working on a brand-new project. Douglas Engineer Ed Heinemann, who thinks the aircraft bomb is the one piece of equipment which hasn't kept pace with aviation's modernization, is working...
...world to sailormen accustomed to the smelly, cramped interiors of standard subs. It will have its own oxygen supply and a special carbon dioxide removing room to freshen the air its crew breathes. There will be vast space for the complex array of dials and electronic gadgets, huge torpedo rooms to hold a school of homing torpedos. The familiar throbbing diesel engines will be gone. Instead, a single atom-powered steam turbine will drive it swiftly and silently at great depth...
...Iliushin). Three-or four-place, twin-jet medium bomber. Speed, about 600 m.p.h.; range, around 2,000 miles; bombload, unknown, but a Red navy version has been fitted to carry a torpedo. Armament, two 37-mm. cannon in the nose, twin 12.7-mm. machine guns in side, top and tail turrets...
Through '41 and '42, as the U-boats up their toll of Allied vessels, the Compass Rose rides dogged herd on its sheeplike formations, manages to bag one enemy sub. Then a night torpedo sends the corvette herself to the bottom. Only eleven of her officers and crew of 88, among them Captain Ericson and First Officer Lockhart, survive. These two, in the frigate Saltash, see the war against the U-boats shift from woefully inadequate defense to ruthlessly efficient pursuit...