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...cruisers. Shell and torpedo fire sank five more transports. A U.S. submarine torpedoed, probably sank a Jap aircraft carrier. U.S. bombers sank two transports, shot down five of twelve Jap fighters. Dutch bombers hit two Jap cruisers, five transports, a destroyer, a Jap warship which looked like a battleship. A Dutch submarine sank a Jap destroyer...
Later in the week U.S. bombers found what was apparently the same battleship at Malalag Bay on the west side of Davao Gulf, gave her the works again. This time she took fire. But the Jap had already moved to the south with most of his force...
There lay an invasion fleet-a battleship, five cruisers, six destroyers, twelve submarines, twelve transports. The big planes squared off on their bombing run and let drive. They scored direct hits on the battleship, sank a destroyer, landed fairly on some of the other vessels. It was a good job by newly arrived U.S. reinforcements. But it was not enough...
Last week a Navy spokesman gave an admiral's-eye-view of the plane v. battleship controversy. Said he: "Anyone who thinks the battleship is passé simply has not studied the progress of naval war in the last two years. The battleship is vulnerable to air attack and must be protected by aircraft. . . . I'm not a diehard who thinks that any warship can be built to withstand air attack, but I am a die-hard who thinks that the final showdown will be ships of the line against ships of the line, aircraft being equal...
Since September 1940, tall, blond Larry Allen has reported firsthand almost every big British naval action in the,, Mediterranean. In March, when the British in one night in the Battle of Matapan knocked out an Italian battleship and sank a half-dozen cruisers and destroyers, Correspond ent Allen got a grandstand view from the bridge of Admiral Cunningham's flagship Warspite. He was with the British squad ron which blasted 5,000 Nazi troops at tempting a surprise landing at Crete...