Word: wahoos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-used broom at the masthead has been symbolic of naval victory since the 17th Century, when Dutch Admiral Martin Tromp was supposed to have lashed a broom to the masthead of his flagship to signify that he had swept the British from the seas. Last week the U.S.S. Wahoo, a submarine of the Pacific Fleet, sported the symbolic broom, and none had a better right...
Scouting Jap activities at Wewak, where a new enemy base is being built to compensate for the loss of Buna and Gona, the Wahoo had made a find. Anchored in a narrow inlet of Mushu Island was a Japanese destroyer. The Wahoo's first torpedoes, fired at long range, missed. The destroyer weighed anchor, bore down on the submarine. Once more the Wahoo launched a torpedo. This time the shot went home, blasted the destroyer in half...
...days later, lurking in the same waters, the Wahoo sighted a fat Jap convoy. First a freighter was sunk, next a troop-jammed transport, then a tanker; finally, with the Wahoo's last torpedo, a second freighter. The sweep was clean. Later the Wahoo, its supply of torpedoes gone, had to let another convoy pass unharmed. Said Lieut. Commander Dudley W. Morton, skipper of the broom-flaunting Wahoo: ''When you have no torpedoes you sure feel naked...