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...British bombers. Half a mile outside Trondheim, transatlantic U-boats crouch in shelters dug out of hill sides which are as prone to slide as the hills of Panama. A few miles farther on is Asen fjord, where the really big ships hide: the mighty Tirpitz, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, and the damaged heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. According to Stockholm reports, the Germans are preparing a full-fledged naval base there, building a drydock big enough to take in 40,000-ton battleships...
...task force, a varied group of vessels strong enough to carry out a specific job, has become the sea weapon of World War II. Modern naval warfare in the Pacific has kept the slow-footed battleship in port, made the carrier the center of task-force operation, the long-range reconnaissance plane the eyes of the striking force. The airplane has so changed sea warfare that its apostles think they will soon see the day when the plane wall drive the battleship completely from the seas...
After the first three days of battle, Radio Tokyo claimed a great victory, hissed excitedly about two U.S. carriers and a battleship sunk, a battleship of the British Warspite class heavily damaged (Britain tersely and immediately replied that no Warspite or other British battlewagon had been sunk or damaged). Then Tokyo began to hedge...
Jellicoe and Scheer commanded from their bridges at Jutland, but today things are different. Chester Nimitz has commanded submarines, and cruiser and battleship divisions, but he has never trod the bridge of the fleet flagship in action. And under today's condition of warfare he probably never will. That is why Texas-born Chester Nimitz had need of his famed, monumental patience last week...
...mind. That sort of man is penalized by the Navy's peacetime promotion system. In the Navy, as in any established institution, orthodoxy is comfortable, safe, comparatively lucrative; while the historic commanders were men who flouted the rulebooks of their day-a fact which tends to escape the "battleship admirals...