Word: torpedos
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That Air Force actually taught its teacher, Adolf Hitler, some tricks. In skillful use of the torpedo bomber, it excelled anything the Germans had devised. In speed of maintenance, fueling and supply far from home base, it suggested the solution of problems which had seemed formidable to the Germans. In widespread yet effective dispersion of effort, it gave the Germans something to ponder...
...Suddenly there was a whizzing of a torpedo and a loud explosion, followed by a short, high-pitched whistle of the torpedoed ship calling for help. A boat fairly near us," de Hoffman said, "was hit, and the explosion shook the whole of our ship...
...Nazi Gaussing torpedo was reported...
...flares passing overhead and turned to Captain Robert Bruskin . . . to ask what they were. 'Tracer shells,' he snapped. . . . After daylight we found fragments and saw where one had made a four-to six-inch dent in a [oil] tank before ricocheting off. . . . We found a German torpedo lying on the shore. It was a great big fellow, perhaps 18 ft. long, with a sharp nose...
...Fleet Air Arm, the entire R.A.F., the big guns of Dover, minefields. The Germans were not driven into this corridor of hell; they chose it. And when they were safely through, it was the British who were bloody. The British had lost 20 bombers, 16 fighters and six torpedo planes, had suffered heavy damage to at least one destroyer. The Germans admitted losing 28 planes, which they might do in a day of raiding along the Kentish coast...