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...This affray above the Yellow Sea differed from its predecessors in that it was the biggest and best organized Communist air ambush since Korea; also in that the Communists did not even bother to protest. Six hundred miles southward, in the storm center around the Tachen Islands, the Seventh Fleet took wary note. "I want tight formations, no straggling," one Navy flight leader told his pilots. "Test your guns as soon as you get into a clear area. Make certain they are ready. Remember this-we are not out looking for a fight. But if trouble is brought...
...Great Britain, TV's most spectacular role has been under water: in 1951, a camera ringed with searchlights was lowered 285 feet to the rocky bottom of the English Channel to find and identify the lost submarine Affray (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951). Off the coast of Elba, Royal Navy TV cameras have plunged for the remains of the Comet jetliner that crashed into the sea last January...
...Last Full Measure. So ended the Battle of Dienbienphu, March 13-May 8, 1954. It was the one set-piece battle of the seven-year Indo-China war-a strange affray of bayonets in the age of atom and jet. Now there was only the stillness in the wasteland. The casualty returns...
...search for the Affray took 59 days, covered a 1,000-sq. mi. Channel area where sonic gear marked the position of more than 90 different wrecks. Each time, the camera was lowered away. Sitting comfortably in the captain's cabin, the Navy diver needed only a glance at the TV screen to see that most of the wrecks were old fishing boats or coal barges...
...sonic gear picked up another marker in the underseas graveyard. Over went the camera, 285 feet down off the island of Alderney. Onto the screen came the image of a submarine's conning tower. As the camera swept along the hull, the brass name plate came into focus: Affray...