Word: torpedos
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...task force of cruisers and destroyers under Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan drove in on the Jap bombardment group. The U.S. flagship was the heavy cruiser San Francisco, the afterpart of whose superstructure had been messed up a bit by the crash of a Jap torpedo pilot the day before. Behind her steamed a column of heavy and light cruisers. Destroyers flanked the line of battle...
...from Britain to Oran (previous paratroops record: the Luftwaffe's 325-mile hop from Namsos to Narvik). U.S. fighter pilots in British Spitfires took off from British carriers, strafed Vichy columns and airdromes, met a few French Dewoitine fighters in Algeria. British Fleet Air Arm pilots in Albacore torpedo-bombers also fought in Algeria...
...cottage near New Haven, lived on home-raised vegetables and $5 a week. When war came, Haucke thought he ought to take some part in it. So he got a job with Bethlehem Shipbuilding's Staten Island Yard, now works ten hours a night repairing valves on torpedo-gashed ships. Valves stimulate Haucke so much that he paints whenever he is not working, sometimes sleeps only two hours a night...
...Navy had only a few small ships, but manned the coastal guns around the naval base, the docks and in the hills. (According to some pre-invasion reports, Germans had also manned coastal batteries in North Africa.) Vichy said that two Allied corvettes were sunk; two French torpedo boats and a sloop were damaged, probably by aircraft from La Senia, Tafaraoui and one other captured airfield. Last to fall was Mers-el-Kebir's airdrome...
Other Vichy warships steamed out to meet an Allied fleet and, according to Vichy, suffered heavy damage. U.S. torpedo boats charged into the harbor. Vichy said that several were sunk by harbor anti-aircraft guns, lowered to fire...