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...prize catch was one battleship (the Haruna) sunk by Captain Colin Kelly off Luzon, and a fair swap for the sinking of the one battleship (Arizona) irrevocably lost at Pearl Harbor. Other Japanese warships also sunk: one carrier, four cruisers, ten destroyers, seven submarines. Noncombatant ships (freighters, tankers, etc.) known sunk...
Most U.S. plants restrict concerts to lunch periods and between shifts, but in many a factory tunes penetrate the clatter of machinery. When the battleship Alabama slid off the ways at the Norfolk Navy Yard, she had become known as "the rhythm ship'' because her welders, riveters and fitters were spurred on by recorded music ranging from symphonies to boogie-woogie. In Botany Worsted Mills' vast Passaic, N.J. plant (khaki for uniforms), light melodies rise above the din of weaving machines and shuttles for periods of five to 25 minutes, six times...
...over a hundred valuable Commando-fighters, sunk (according to German claims) were 13 British motor gunboats and torpedo ships. But the British were well satisfied. On their farthest Commando raid of the war, they had, they were confident, knocked out the only Atlantic port big enough to drydock the battleship Tirpitz, the dock that had once held the once-mighty Normandie, the busiest pen for Nazi subs. The raid was soothing to Britain's invasion boosters, too. To many of them it seemed that the British brass hats were at last realizing the vulnerability of the 100-mile wide...
...such dreams there is a wealth of background material. When naval strength was computed in terms of wooden ships and iron men, an unidentified artist in the Mexican war of 1846-47 pictured the battleship of 1952. It was a cathedral-like fortress armed and armored to the crow's nest. His pagodaed vision had a strange prescience in its slanting surfaces, its radical protection for the crew...
...George W. Walker of Detroit. He went all the way, streamlined his ship like an airplane, put his main battery in mushroom turrets, massed bridge and stack into a bulletlike island alongside a launching deck for aircraft. It was another vision. But no man could reasonably say that the battleship of 1955 might not have more than a passing resemblance to the dreamboat Walker...