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TIME'S cover portrait of egg-bald Jap Admiral Nagano and his pistol-pointing battleship stirred up so much interest that I thought you might like to know something about the thinking behind TIME'S covers and how they are planned...
Events began to document decisions. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt spoke and to the U.S. came the first military consequence of Casablanca-the French battleship Richelieu (see p. 24). Also there came solemn warnings...
After the Rennell Island action, the Tokyo radio said: "It is plain that the U.S. can never regain her sea strength." At week's end Secretary Knox said that U.S. losses had been "minor in everything . . . moderate . . . nothing significant." Apparently no battleship was lost, and probably not much in the way of cruisers or destroyers. Even the Tokyo radio changed its tune: it said that the U.S. had ten battleships, ten aircraft carriers and 20 heavy cruisers in the Solomons area, that the Japanese fleet was "numerically inferior...
Navy communiqués have not yet credited Army bombers with sinking the battleship but other sources have verified it as "one of the great air stories of the war," a feat of one Bombardment Group (designation secret). It was the high mark in the crack battle record of that group and its Flying Fortresses. From their arrival on Guadalcanal in August until November, they had met the enemy 500 times, shot down 113 Jap planes, destroyed 13 more on the ground...
...simple and excellent purpose of showing how U.S. airmen fight. The Mary Ann and her crew, a composite of many ships and men, fight in every important air battle from Pearl Harbor to the Coral Sea, including a re-enactment of Colin Kelly's attack on the battleship Haruna. In this story of one ship, Air Force rolls up all the excitement of the air war in the Pacific...