Word: torpedos
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...critical point in the battle when the Japs hoped to drive through to Pearl Harbor and a decisive victory, U.S. task forces lost contact with the enemy. Then 15 planes of Torpedo Squadron Eight suddenly came out of the overcast and saw spread out below them three Jap carriers and their escorts...
...Torpedo Eight's commander radioed the information, asked for permission to withdraw and refuel. Their gas was almost gone...
Aboard his flagship Spruance considered. If Torpedo Eight withdrew, the Japs would have time to get their planes into the air and be ready to ward off the attacks of other U.S. planes. He made his solemn calculations with human lives and ordered: "Attack at once...
...overrun with dogs -mongrels and curs of all descriptions -called "Bombproof" and "Propwash," dogs raised by the soldiers and pampered beyond the dreams of any U.S. pet. In Alaska, too, there was an echo of Prohibition. Bored G.I.s invented a new drink, dubbed it "Aleutian Solution." Contents: one part "torpedo juice" or medical alcohol, two parts grapefruit juice. CJ A Californian in the farthest South...
Complete details on the local aspects of the current Fifth War Loan Drive will be released in Tuesday's SERVICE NEWS. Special particulars of the Navy's campaign, July 1 through 8, will outline plans for the WAVES purchase of two torpedo craft, to be launched on their second anniversary, July...