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...Atlantic. At the same time the first chill of autumn, bringing intermittent fogs, marked the opening of better weather for submarines. But possibly neither of these things was so important last week as the launching of a vessel which, when completed, will be the only United Nations battleship afloat able, without giving odds, to take on the powerful Nazi Tirpitz, sister of the sunken Bismarck...
...next day a great naval battle had been joined, in which both sea and air forces were taking part. Before Tuesday noon Army and Navy carrier-based planes had effectively bombed two Jap carriers, one battleship, several cruisers. One cruiser and one transport were left burning fiercely. Four hits had been scored on the larger Jap carrier by Army bombers. The smaller Jap carrier, the 7100-ton, 24-plane Ryuzyo, had been "severely damaged" by U.S. Navy aircraft...
...that can be expected in landing on a hostile shore against a determined enemy. The Japs announced that their planes went out and engaged the attacking vessels in a raging storm. As usual they made exaggerated claims of losses inflicted on the U.S.-asserted that they had sunk a battleship and 21 other warships and transports...
...even his old classmates found that they really knew little of their friend. They could describe his thin grey hair, his stern mouth, his droop-lidded eyes. They could discourse on his geniality when he relaxed over a drink, on the calm, unexcited way of his command of a battleship, of his respect for the opinions of his staff officers before his own decisions were made. But few of them had ever got to the inside of the man. When they tried, by thinking back over his friendship, they decided that inside was all Navy. In Ghormley's reserved...
When war came in 1917, Ghormley was first lieutenant of the battleship Nevada. He was aide and flag lieutenant in Battleship Force One when Washington called him ashore, gave him a job in the Naval Overseas Transportation Service. In a complicated job without glory, Old Hookem was tagged for tough administrative and diplomatic jobs...