Kitchen knife a slotted metal blade attached to a handle. Also known as a Mezzaluna (Italian: "half moon") because of the shape, a mincing knife is a semicircular highly curved blade with a handle that allows the blade to be rocked back and forth repeatedly on a hard surface. This rocking motion is ideal for mincing and chopping. Some mincing knives are supplied with a wooden cutting board with a circular bowl-shaped indentation that matches the curvature of the knife. Some models have two blades that are parallel to each other to increase their mincing power. Large mezzaluna-like knives with shallow curves
USS Half Moon (AVP-26) 1945. She supported seaplane antisubmarine searches from Tawi Tawi Bay until early August 1945, and then carried out the same mission from Mangarin Bay on Mindoro. "Half Moon" received two battle stars for her World War II service. Following Japan's surrender on 15 August 1945, "Half Moon" proceeded to Subic Bay on Luzon in the Philippines, and from there got underway for Okinawa on 30 August 1945. On the afternoon of 31 August 1945 signs of a storm were evident and by 1 September 1945 "Half Moon" was engulfed in a raging typhoon, with winds up to (222 kilometers per