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Hardy Mrs. Craig had asked Navy permission to return to the U.S. with the presidential party and the male reporters aboard the battleship Missouri. The Navy, which has a stern rule against carrying women aboard warships-even grandmothers-because there are no toilet facilities for them, promptly passed the buck to the White House. But Mrs. Craig was well aware that the Navy had provided facilities for Mrs. Truman, Margaret and a maid in the austere privacy of the captain's island...
...East Boston, the 33,400-ton battleship, U.S.S. New Mexico, onetime "queen" of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and veteran of two wars, went up for sale as scrap...
...Japanese took a battleship of the Yamato class while still under construction, converted her to a carrier, named her the Shinano. At 59,000 tons, she was 14,000 tons larger than the Midway class, the U.S. Navy's mightiest...
...Called the world's most powerful battleship, the Musashi displaced 72,809 tons fully loaded, sported nine 18-inch guns-the world's largest. U.S. Navy flyers sank it with six torpedoes and numerous bomb hits in the Battle for Leyte Gulf...
...Navy has 18 ships under construction, including some new-type high-speed submarines and the 45,000-ton battleship Kentucky, now 70% completed as a platform for launching guided missiles. At a demonstration on the West Coast last fortnight the Army & Navy showed off some new aircraft:* the rocket-propelled Bell XS-1 (TIME, Dec. 23), designed to reach a supersonic 1,000 m.p.h.; the Navy's carrier-based XFJ-1 jet fighter; Consolidated Vultee's gigantic six-motored B-36, the "Flying Cigar," which can carry a 10,000-lb. bomb load 5,000 miles and return...