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...easing LaGuardia out. Meantime hen-shaped Fiorello continued to fly back & forth between Washington and New York, always a little out of breath and red in the face. At a ceremony marking the start of his third Mayoralty term, he flapped his wet wings and exploded with bantam wrath...
That was just the beginning - after the first aerial assault that had told them the show was on. Bantam (5 ft. 5 in.) Major James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, the detachment commander, returned a Marine's answer: "Come and get us." The Jap got another answer. Somehow, either by bombardment from the four fighter planes still on the island (eight had been smashed by the enemy) or by fire from his six 5-in. guns, little Jimmie Devereux sank the cruiser and one of the destroyers. He reported it tersely to Honolulu. Later he reported his men had sunk...
Some 2,500 jeeps are now in use. The Infantry and the Armored Force are each equipped with about a thousand, while the Cavalry and Field Artillery have another 400. They are part of an original order for 4,500, distributed among the Ford, American Bantam and Willys-Overland factories. Newest contract for 16,000 more is held by Willys-Overland, which is scheduled to deliver the goods in four or five months. Present plans call for 95 jeeps to each Infantry regiment...
...Army will need a lot more tank destroyers than it had last week. It soon will have them: the armored trucks which carry the 75s are in quantity production; 75-mm. guns are one thing the Army has a lot of. Henry Ford, American Bantam Car Co. and Willys-Overland are turning out thousands of jeeps, although 37-mm. gun production is still far behind the need. Still newer versions of destroyers are on the way, including a bigger-calibre anti-tank gun which eventually will relegate the 37 to the status of a third-line weapon...
Admirals King, Kimmel and Hart had all but complete discretion in selecting their key officers. In battle order of succession to the Fleet command, Admiral King's topmost subordinates are: Rear Admiral David McDougal Le Breton, 56, a greying, bandy-legged bantam who holds six decorations. He is generally rated one of the Navy's ablest tacticians, by his partisans is considered a coming CINCUS (Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet). His disparagers say that he is adept at polishing topside apples. He commands the Atlantic Fleet's single division of three old battleships (Arkansas, Texas, New York...