Word: ark
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Little Rock, Ark., a Negro mother named her triplets "Gone," "With" and "Wind...
Little Rock, Ark...
...nimble Italians were not scot free. Fairey Swordfish torpedo planes and Blackburn Skua dive bombers went whirring after them from the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, far in the rear of the British formation. These plunged and plopped their projectiles at the escapists, while their fighter escorts took on Italian defensive aircraft. As they returned to the Ark Royal, and reconnaissance planes flew up to check the battle score, Sir James led his ships away from land, down toward Malta and their original course, well knowing what a hornets' nest the action would stir up at the Cagliari air bases...
Soon the Fascist hornets came, angry waves of Sparviero bombers, guarded by Falco chasers which British fighters rose to meet as explosives showered around the departing British warships. One bomb-fall landed all around the Ark Royal, but she emerged from cataracts of spray with all her anti-aircraft guns crackling angrily...
...that only their heavy cruiser Fiume was hit (by one shell-which did not explode), and the destroyer Lanciere, which was badly hurt. Their 35,000-ton Vittorio Veneto outmaneuvered the torpedo planes, dodged their projectiles. Meantime their guns and planes smacked one British battleship, three cruisers and the Ark Royal. In the air they claimed 13 British planes shot down to two Italians (the British said two Italians, one British...