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...Italians announced that they jumped-up the convoy—a mighty one, with two aircraft carriersצff Sardinia, and at once began a running attack. In their first attack they claimed to have sunk two cruisers, one destroyer, four supply ships; to have damaged a carrier, a battleship, seven other craft. This, they boasted, was only a beginning...
...fairly low (at about 7,000 feet). The accuracy of the Japs' anti-aircraft fire surprised the U.S. pilots and bounced their planes around, but none was brought down. In this first attack, they reported hits on one cruiser, a transport, possibly a second cruiser and a battleship...
...round one, air power had proved it could sink battleships and did so at Pearl Harbor and in the battle for Malaya, when the Prince of Wales and Repulse went down. Surface power's seconds cried "Foul!" but when the second round opened, the battleship was in No. 2 position in the fleet line. The carrier is now the capital ship of the sea (as the U.S. Navy tacitly acknowledged by concentrating its attacks on the Japanese carriers rather than battleships at Midway...
...Japanese were unhappy about Britain's prior lease on the strategically rich Diégo-Suarez naval base (TIME, May 18). They showed their anger by a surprise submarine attack in which they claimed last week to have damaged a British battleship and a light cruiser. The British Admiralty admitted the attack, but said there had been no casualties. Meanwhile, British forces groping southward a few miles from Diégo-Suarez found that the Vichyfrench had not yet given up. Neither had the Japanese. Probably sneaking ashore from Jap submarines, the two late officers undoubtedly had important plans...
...German tanks, still packed more firepower than the British, but this advantage was being cut down fast. The British had learned that they could match heavier firepower with tactical skill, smoke screening, ganging up-exactly as three British cruisers had harried the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee to her doom off Montevideo. Tank warfare in the desert resembles sea war in more ways than one: the taking of ground means nothing; the location and destruction of the hostile land fleets everything...