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...antiphony with the full-throated Heils of massed Germans; the odd and sinister British-Nazi faction of Sir Oswald Mosley goose-stepping in Hyde Park; the garden walls hand-built by Churchill during his enforced retirement at Chartwell; later shots of Winston Churchill walking the deck of a British battleship, wearing bow tie and bowler and carrying a cane. First Lord of the Admiralty once more, after the message had gone out to His Majesty's fleet, "Winston is back." What really put the ABC series in flight were the words behind the pictures, the prose of Churchill spoken...
...Into the battleship-grey conference room of the drab Bond Hotel in Hartford, Conn, last week walked Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon, Running Mate Henry Cabot Lodge, and such top campaign lieutenants as Labor Secretary James Mitchell, Attorney General William Rogers and Interior Secretary Fred Seaton. The men took their places around a long table, posed for press photographers. Then aides shooed the newsmen out, the doors closed, the smiles faded, and the Republican campaign team got down to the serious business before it: settling on strategy, tactics and schedules for the last, decisive weeks of the campaign...
...sank the super-battleship Yamato, sent out with a handful of destroyers as the only blue-water resistance that the imperial Japanese fleet could muster when the U.S. Navy came slamming up the island ladder to Okinawa on Easter Sunday 1945. So obviously sacrificial was Yamato's "last gasp" mission against Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth Fleet that the great ship was given only enough fuel for a one-way trip from Japan. The battle for Okinawa, at the homeland's very door, was the death struggle of Japan, and its capture was the largest, longest...
...festooned with assorted demolition charges, fanned out across the bulky concrete submarine pens. A refitted American destroyer-the old four-stacker Buchanan-crammed with explosive until it was a vast time bomb, rammed the main gate of Normandie dock, only Atlantic dry dock capable of handling the great German battleship Tirpitz. Of the 611-man assault team, only 442 survived. But St. Nazaire was shattered by blasts that went off at unexpected intervals for the next 2½ days. Normandie dock could not be repaired for the next ten years. The commando raid, said Churchill later, was "a deed...
Skipper Beach (Annapolis '39) is the son of the late Captain Edward Beach, who commanded the battleship New York in 1918-19 and who wrote Navy stories for children. Ned Beach won the Navy Cross, Silver Stars and a chestful of other medals as a World War II submariner, recorded his adventures in two big-selling books, Submarine! and Run Silent, Run Deep (a novel that was made into a movie...