Word: warships
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...Navy won its first sea victory of World War II late in September, but the announcement was not made until last week. No Jutland or Trafalgar was this engagement: a U.S. warship patrolling Greenland waters to protect the huge Navy and Army air bases now nearing completion at Newfoundland, captured a 60-ton Norwegian steamer. Aboard was a crew of 20, including an agent of the German Gestapo. Their mission: to establish radio stations on the fjord-fissured, thousand-harbored Greenland Coast, keep Germany advised of the most vital of all information in the Battle of the Atlantic, the weather...
...climbed a hill of about 80 meters, from where I saw a ship about 20 miles southeast, but I was unable to identify her as a warship, or armored vessel. Another ship was more distant and I was able to see only the column of her smoke...
...captain's berth. Today he is a Master Mariner, certified to command any ship of any size anywhere in sail or steam. But when in World War I the Royal Navy drafted him at 32, it did not put him on the bridge of a warship. Instead, he found himself on the "front porch" of an openwork biplane, learning to fly, then teaching himself the dangerous art of taking off from the deck of a merchantman. From this kind of makeshift carrier, Flight Commander Bowhill flew on the first bombing against the German Navy in World...
...evening news roundup. In what sense Alexander Woollcott's life had hitherto been cast amid perils was not explained; but there was no doubt that the Town Crier was in character. Besides candy for a Lady, his presents (carried over with his person on a British warship) included 45 pairs of silk stockings, three dozen lipsticks, "yes, and bobby pins...
...Japan's cleanest-looking submarines, supposedly with range enough to cross the Pacific and back without refueling, was sunk last week. But Japan did not go to war over it. No protests were sent to Moscow. Reason: I-61 was sunk by a Japanese warship, with which it collided...