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People. Before his press conference, Franklin Roosevelt had spent a crowded week. Into his office had marched a long parade of visitors. Vice Admiral Raymond A. Fenard, 56, balding chief of the Giraud-ist French naval mission, had brought a model of the 35,000-ton French battleship Richelieu. Builder Henry J. Kaiser brought another model, of the new 514-ft. aircraft carriers that will roll off the ways of his Vancouver shipyards at the rate of six a month by the end of 1943. Bearing no gifts, but only urgent business, had come such men as Cordell Hull, Sumner...
Ever since the once-mighty French battleship Richelieu limped into New York harbor six weeks ago with other ships of the French Navy (TIME, Feb. 22), New Yorkers have sympathetically watched, wined, dined and entertained the French sailors cavorting on shore leave. Easily recognized by the red pompon on their blue caps, the sailors strolled arm in arm up & down Broadway; they crowded the tiny French restaurants in the East Fifties, chatting with waiters, bartenders, barflies. Some started learning a few simple words of English (see cut), some gave their blood to the Red Cross...
Before he could send his four boats into the attack the darkness split apart. In the flare of big guns, the PT men saw what they had run into. Back of the destroyers were a battleship, three cruisers, at least seven destroyers...
...November 1940 the motorship San Demetrio, well out of Halifax with 11,000 tons of gasoline, was struck amidships and on the port bow by shells from the pocket battleship Admiral von Scheer. She caught fire and her crew abandoned her. After two days 16 of her seamen, some wounded and one dying, boarded her, blazing as she was, and put out her fires. They got her in commission and sailed her by dead reckoning to Ireland. Her normal complement was 42 men. One single spark, at any moment, could have been the end of the 16 who manned...
...campaign had cost the Japs at least one battleship, 13 cruisers, 22 destroyers, twelve troop transports, at least eight cargo vessels, 797 planes destroyed, hundreds more crippled and possibly destroyed, some 8,000 men killed in action; an unknown number dead of disease; 30,000 drowned when transports were sunk...