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W.H.A.L.E. A heavily-armed hovercraft used by the G.I. Joe
team
as an assault vehicle and landing craft. Usually deployed at sea, the
Whale
operates with a 4-man crew, and has room for several more passengers.
Its
armaments and ordnance include two twin-.50 caliber machine gun
turrets,
2 forward-mounted cannons, 2 four-bay missle boxes and 2 depth charge
racks.
It also carries a small, one-man recon sled. The Whale's captain is
usually
Cutter, the only member of the Joe team from the Coast Guard, with
Shipwreck
often serving as "first mate". The Joes first used the Whale during a
battle
against Cobra forces along the coast of Florida. Months
later,
Torpedo and Snow Job piloted the Whale during an assault on a small
island
holding a Cobra base. They defeated Cobra there, but failed to
learn
the reason for their presence. A larger operation was underway in the
Gulf
of Mexico. When the Joes investigated, Cobra attacked and tricked them
into aggravating an undersea faultline, which caused the creation of a
new island. The Whale, under Cutter's command, evaded enemy fire and
delivered
the Joes' landing force to the island. Their goal was to push Cobra off
the island before they could gain sovereignty. The Joes had nearly won
when word came from Washington: the island was now Cobra's own
independent
nation. The team was forced to call off the assault and the
disappointed
Joes boarded the Whale and returned home. For the next few
years,
the Whale participated in many missions for the Joes, including the
rescue
of Ripcord and Snake-Eyes from Cobra Island and a night raid on the
island
in which the team fought the Soviets' October Guard. At
the
start of the Joes' major involvement of the Cobra Island civil war, two
Whale hovercrafts took the point, hoping to knock out Cobra's coastal
defenses
to allow the team's transport aircraft to land at the island's
airfield.
One of the two vessels made it through the initial attack, but Cutter's
Whale was totalled by Cobra's machine gun emplacements -- most of which
were destroyed shortly afterward by the Whale's crew. (GI 28, 29, 36, 40, 41, 47, 74; YB 4) |
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