Word: spanner
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...visited the Portsmouth naval base, there bestowed honors on a "suicide squad" of five from H. M. S. Vernon (as the combined Portsmouth barracks and naval laboratory are still called, after an old training ship long since rotted away). They were the men who, "with undaunted courage and a spanner," sloshed out between tides on a windy foreshore to where, half buried in mud, lay a magnetic mine-first specimen obtained by the Royal Navy's explosion experts. Unbolting the case, ignoring ominous hisses and tickings, Lieut. Commander, Roger Lewis at last thrust his arm inside the mine, unscrewed...