Word: gunboat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many men the Jap had lost is not known. But he had lost the services of a small fleet of ships-seven in all-a light cruiser, four destroyers, a gunboat and a submarine. Some, including the cruiser, were sunk, the others crippled by gunfire and bomb. In the air, the pilots of VMF-211's single-seaters had also knocked down five Jap bombers...
...poured into the International Settlement and along the famous Bund. A Japanese destroyer eased up to the British river gun boat Peterel, fired three red warning lights, a minute later opened fire and set it burn ing blackly. Then the destroyer proceeded 100 yards downstream and captured the U.S. gunboat Wake, which had been partially dismantled and was being used merely as a consular wireless station. The flag of the Rising Sun was unfurled from its aftermast...
...fortnight they had been pushing southward into Chinese defense positions below the strategic rail town of Yochow. Last week they sent a large flanking force down Tungting Lake. Under air and gunboat protection they landed in the Chinese rear, advanced to within 50 miles of Changsha. The Japanese said 20,000 Chinese troops were encircled...
...seize by military aggression all nations in this Hemisphere (see p. 24). He helped the President tighten the screws on the Japanese by banning oil shipments to Japan. He accepted from the Japanese apologies and the offer of indemnity for the apparently accidental bombing of the 14-year-old gunboat Tutuila, a 370-ton tub which the Navy has stationed on the Yangtze River at Chungking. He recognized for the U.S. the exiled London Government of Czechoslovakia. He accused the German Government of barefaced impudence in its note to Mexico threatening reprisals unless the Mexicans protested the U.S. economic black...
Naval Reserve activities have called John W. Lowes '20, financial vice-president, to serve as executive officer of the patrol gunboat St. Augustine for the duration of the national emergency...