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...Trafalgar the biggest battleship was the Spanish Santissima Trinidad. It was destroyed by Nelson's fleet in spite of its name and 30 guns. The crew of the Corpus Christi should not expect any special protection, at least in this world...
...Japanese who were there, 40 years ago next Monday, Dec. 7, remember it as a day of breathtaking accomplishment and extraordinary luck. Lieut. Heijiro Abe was navigating the lead plane in a formation of Nakajima bombers over Pearl Harbor's "battleship row" when his chance came; a bomb from his plane soon tore into the bowels of the West Virginia. On the eastern edge of Oahu, at Bellows Field, Sub-Lieut. Iyozoh Fujita, flying a Zero fighter from the Japanese carrier Soryu on his first combat mission, saw his flight commander shot down by an enraged soldier furiously firing...
...that Sunday's carnage, the U.S. toll was 2,403 dead, all eight battleships in the harbor crippled or destroyed, 188 planes demolished and another 159 damaged. When Pearl Harbor survivors and military brass gather next Monday for an anniversary ceremony at the Arizona memorial, the mood will still be somber: 1,102 of the dead were entombed in the sunken hulk of the battleship over which the memorial stands...
...fighter planes and the advantages of ground vs. ship-launched cruise missiles. Battle lines are already being drawn for upcoming debates over the MX missile and a new B-l bomber. Even the Administration's proposal to reactivate two mothballed warships, including the World War II battleship New Jersey, has run into strong Senate opposition. Critics contend the ships simply are not worth the salvage cost...
DIED. Bruce Austin Fraser, 93, deceptively mild-mannered admiral who served from 1948 to 1951 as Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff, after having distinguished himself in World War II through exploits like commanding the force that sank the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst off Norway in 1943; in London...