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...still proud, resolute, massively beautiful. As she lolled at anchor in the Willamette River in downtown Portland last week the sunbeams wriggled through her superstructure, flicked over the letters OREGON. Once she was the bravest battleship in the U.S. Fleet, the heroine and toast of the whole U.S. Now Washington had consigned her to the junk heap, where her 10,300 tons of steel, copper and brass could be turned into fighting metals for World...
...Oregon had a champion's string of firsts. She was the first modern battleship of basic U.S. design; the first major warship built on the West Coast (San Francisco's Union Iron Works, 1896). But her great claim to fame was that for 68 days the U.S. waited with bated breath while she raced against time: she had completed her shakedown cruise in the Pacific in time to start a 14,700-mile dash to the Atlantic to fight the Spanish Fleet. She almost foundered in the storm-racked Magellan Strait. She had no time to have...
...strange malaise took the airmen too. That afternoon a reconnaissance crew, ranging north from Port Moresby, reported two battleship off the northern coast. Another look next day showed they were two destroyers, escorting several transports. The bombers took...
...were appallingly high from that time on. Of six Marine torpedo planes that went out, only one returned; of four Army torpedo planes, two came back. A flight of 16 Marine dive-bombers went after a carrier believed to be the Soryu (Blue Dragon). Only eight returned. A battleship was bombed, left smoking and listing...
...battleship Lorraine; more recent cruisers Suffren, Tourville, Duquesne, Duguay-Trouin; destroyers Basque, Le Fortune, Forbin ; one submarine...