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...Grow enough food on every battleship to feed its entire crew for six months...
...British cruiser Ajax dropped anchor last week at Haifa. In the first winter of the war against Hitler, the Ajax had been a symbol of hope and freedom when she and two other light British warcraft harried the German pocket battleship Graf Spee to self-destruction off Montevideo. She was not that sort of symbol last week to hundreds of desperate Jews who stared at her from impounded refugee ships in Haifa harbor...
...Kilroy" was World War IIs best-known G.I. No one ever saw him, no one ever caught up with him. But wherever G.I.s went, they found that Kilroy had preceded them, leaving his mark on privy and barracks walls. After Bikini it was found chalked on the battleship Pennsylvania. One of numerous G.I. theories about Kilroy: he was an AWOL infantryman, trying to let his commanding officer know where he was. But an A.A.F. sergeant, Francis J. Kilroy of Everett, Mass., said not at all: a pal of his had started it just...
Color Question. In Columbus, Ohio, a housepainter, exasperated by the endless questions of three-year-old Harold Thompson, painted him red, sent him home. Scrubbed, the boy returned, got a battleship grey treatment...
...miles away aboard the press ship Appalachian, watchers saw the huge area of Bikini lagoon rise with lightning-like speed and in boiling violence. LSM 60 vanished in the twinkling of an eye. The 26,100-ton battleship Arkansas (the oldest surviving P.S. dreadnaught, dating from 1910), was next nearest the detonation point. She flopped over on her port side and was immediately swallowed...