Word: towers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motor caught fire and then the bomber scraped ground, damaging a wing and punching a hole in the fuselage. Kegelman regained control of his plane and flew on from the target area, only to be faced a few moments later by intense fire from a nearby anti-aircraft tower. He dove straight at the tower, silencing it with his forward guns, then took his crippled ship back to base...
Retractable deck guns, eliminating the previous lag between surfacing and unlimbering conning-tower weapons, enable submarines to open fire almost at the split second of surfacing near their prey...
...torpedoed without warning, her name, home port and Argentina's colors plainly visible in the early-morning light. Four sailors were killed; another drowned later. The Rio Tercero's captain said the submarine had had the name Innsbruck and a porcupine painted on its conning tower...
...first act, perhaps partly because his lines are the only ones which talk as a human being should talk, but mainly because he seems to know better how to act than any of the others. The supporting cast is as usual excellent, with Louise Kanasireff and Allan Tower turning in especially good performances...
...first passed close by a passenger-jammed harbor ferry, periscope and conning tower in plain sight. Depth charges jarred the Sydney waterfront. A communique from General MacArthur's headquarters announced that all three of the midgets had been destroyed, that Allied losses were limited to the damaging of one insignificant harbor vessel...