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Most of these were transports, repair ships, tugs, minesweepers, net layers, but they included two battleships which had been placed in commission (the 35,000-ton North Carolina and Washington), one battleship (South Dakota) launched, keels laid for two more as well as for 14 cruisers, 18 submarines, two aircraft carriers, 57 destroyers. Launched were one cruiser, eight subs, eight destroyers...
Fortnight ago this 16th battleship of the U.S. fleet-the first to be added in 18 years-completed her speed tests. Last week she headed out to sea for the toughest tests of all: gunfire that would show how well she could stand the shock of her own battle punch. Many a navyman still remembers how some years ago one famed U.S. battleship fired her forward turret on her test run and spent six months in the navy yard getting her damage repaired. And now North Carolina was out to prove the hard way that she could take a slug...
...George C. Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of The Air Forces' Major General Henry H. Arnold, Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson. No longer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, said luncheon-table gossip in New York, was the Navy's new battleship, North Carolina...
...plummeting shriek of bombs was the first warning the Germans had that there was something new over the western front. Thirty thousand feet above the battleship Gneisenau, lying camouflaged at Brest, flew U.S.-built Flying Fortresses manned by the R.A.F. They had arrived through the substratosphere, unheard and unseen in the broad daylight; they had done so because behind each of the Fortresses' four engines were turbo-superchargers, feeding them fat air to breathe in the thin heights. Though the coast below was warm and summery, the planes were frosted over with rime. They cruised serenely above the effective...
...Peninsula) the Japanese will have bases from which they could easily attack Singapore. And they might, from Thailand, be able to close the Burma Road into China. It remained to be seen how much aggression in these quarters the British would stand for. Last week the 30,600-ton battleship Warspite was reported sighted in the Gulf of Siam...