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...Navy changed its mind, moved the 58-year-old battleship to Apra Harbor, Guam, where, towards the end of the Pacific war, she did duty as a breakwater and ammunition ship. Shorn of superstructure and stricken from the Navy's active list, she still lies in Guam awaiting further orders...
...grew up in North Carolina, but on a different level. The son of an impoverished tobacco farmer, he worked his way through high school, enlisted in the Navy (he still bears a permanent souvenir of his Navy days: a forearm rose tattoo). One day in 1911, aboard the battleship U.S.S. Delaware, Chief Electrician Morgan helped an inventor named Elmer Sperry install a new gyroscopic compass for a test. Sperry was so impressed that he hired Morgan, who worked up through the Sperry ranks, became president in 1928, expanded the firm into a wide field (e.g., guided missiles, hay balers...
Before the war, Bentinck-Smith's occupations were literary in one form or another, and the the prospect of military service was not an appealing one. "I was," he recalls, "a green, innocent fellow from Harvard; a guy, more a writer than a warrior, who found himself on a battleship in the Coral Sea." He served on Rear Admiral Willis Lee's communications staff and later was stationed in Washington...
GERMANY'S Blohm & Voss, the country's biggest shipbuilder (the 45,000-ton battleship Bismarck), is back in business for the first time since World War II, but on a smaller scale. The shipyard has just received permission from the allies to build light coastal vessels...
...other hand, without any old school tie, the Air Force has not yet developed any horse-cavalry generals or battleship admirals, and in the immediate future, is not likely to do so. It is in the new dimension of change that the Air Force is building toward the fantastically complicated era of the supersonic airplane, the hydrogen bomb and the guided missile. It is thus that it intends to hold up its end of Admiral Mahan's word-"watchfulness...