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...state has long tried to buy the tired-out battleship Texas, which it wants to moor in the San Jacinto River as a battle memorial. But negotiations have been held up for lack of money for a mooring. Half seriously, last week, the Lone Stars were suggesting that every Texan in service be fined $1 for bragging about Texas. Thus, they figured offhand, a million dollars could be raised...
...Navy Day," as stated by TIME [Oct. 29], was indeed a "stirring performance and great publicity show." Where ships could not go, admirals were sent to make pleas on behalf of the near-defunct battleship and cruiser. A great show, indeed-and all at the cost of the taxpayer...
...Navy today is in the same position cavalry was at the end of World War I. And by the time World War III arrives, a battleship will be about as useful as a wooden leg in a forest fire. I have spoken...
...beginning, blond, reticent Robert Hampton Gray, 27, was a student at the University of British Columbia, hoping eventually to become a physician. By 1940 he was a sublieutenant in the Fleet Air Arm. In five years he won a citation for dive-bombing attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz, a D.S.C. for sinking a Japanese destroyer. On Aug. 9, 1945, five days before war's end, he skimmed off the flight deck of the carrier Formidable, led an eight-plane attack on Japanese warships outside Tokyo Bay. Tearing through heavy flak, he piloted his riddled, blazing fighter to within...
...case anyone still misunderstood him, Jimmy Doolittle sent a few more rockets into the air: "The battleship . . . has been obsolescent for 20 years and obsolete for ten. The carrier has reached its highest state of development and is going into obsolescence...