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...success of the raid exceeded our most optimistic expectations." South of Tokyo he left in flames a cruiser or battleship under construction at the Navy yard. At Nagoya he showered incendiary bombs on the Mitsubishi airplane factory and an oil-tank farm. "It appeared to us that practically every bomb reached the target for which it was intended. . . . About 25 or 30 miles to sea the rear gunners reported seeing columns of smoke rising thousands of feet...
...well-grounded, competent artist in her own right, Mrs. Mullen concedes with reluctance that her material is now matériel. She says sadly: "If people would realize that a sheet of 10-gauge steel 6 by 18 ft. would only make one and one-half inches of battleship plate, and even then it's too thin...
...over the U.S. armchair strategists still pound the table: the battleship is through, air power rules the seas...
...prosperous nation, able to support a good navy. The one thesis upheld the other in a solid arch. But now the flat-topped, hound-fast carrier had suddenly become sea power's capital ship. Unregenerate airmen, in the hearing of brooding seadogs, said the carrier outmoded the battleship. Air-power partisans supported them...
Aircraft Maker Glenn L. Martin said that battleships could be scrapped if the U.S. had enough big flying boats like his newly launched, titanic Mars. Old blue-water men kept their tempers. Rear Admiral Ormond L. Cox remarked during a reporter's visit to the Newport News yards that if the other fellow has battleships, then we've got to have them too. Jane's, the British annual handbook on fighting ships, credited Japan with five new 40,000-ton battleships built or on the ways, plus battle-cruisers of 12,000-15,000 tons. Down Battleship...