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...Iowa, with 10,000 tons of additional protection and speed (designed for 35 knots compared to 27), isa faster, tougher version of the North Carolina type carrying nine 16-inch guns. More than any other U.S. ship, the Iowa is protected against aerial bombs, submarine torpedoes, surface shellfire. Her 200,000-h.p. engines are ten times as powerful as those of the old (1910) Wyoming. Her auxiliary power plant, the one that lights the lights and turns the turrets, churns up enough electricity for a city of 20,000-more horsepower (14,000) than a pre-World War I dreadnought...
Died. Stephen Horthy, 38, Vice-Regent of Hungary, son and heir of 74-year-old Regent Nicholas Horthy; reportedly in aerial combat on the Russian front. A noted sportsman, flyer and amorist, he was a pal of Nazi bigwigs, who allegedly rewarded him with the presidency of the State Railways (rumor said he helped to finance the Hungarian Nazi movement with railway funds). His possible successor: ex-Hungarian Minister to Brazil Nicholas Horthy Jr., the Regent's younger...
Lieut. Colonel Elliott, 31, of the Air Corps, had a close brush with the Luftwaffe in Africa last spring when his unarmed observation plane was chased by Nazi fighters. He returned to the U.S. for a minor operation, took charge of an aerial-photography unit in Colorado, was promoted to lieutenant colonel last fortnight...
...guarded by a husky teen-aged German-talking youth, who charged at "Neddie" Collins with a bayonet, ran smack into a Coast Guard fist. As Neddie and his pal watched wide-eyed. Guardsmen hauled away spy and radio-a two-way, short-wave station complete with hidden aerial...
Admiral Ghormley must have known generally what resistance he would meet. Tulagi was the scene of the Navy's first attack in the Battle of the Coral Sea, a blistering aerial surprise that caught a Jap force flatfooted, littered its tiny (one square mile) harbor with the hulks of nine or ten ships, including five cruisers. Since then, it had been regularly scouted...