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...battleship Missouri never faltered in her course when a Kamikaze hit her off Okinawa, but when New York City school children swarmed aboard, the "Mighty Mo" shuddered from stem to stern. At her Hudson River berth last week, she was boarded by 60,000 sightseeing youngsters in a single day. Manhattan's moppets were marauders: many came armed with pliers, wrenches and screw drivers, besides their standard equipment of penknives. In a short, sharp action they...
...like Smith to keep the outfit going. Smith was 16 when he shipped in the Marine Corps. He was a husky, competent corporal of 22 when he heard his first shot fired in anger. That was at Pearl Harbor. Charles Henry Smith was in the color guard aboard the battleship Maryland when the enemy struck. On the double at the proper command, he manned his antiaircraft...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Fred erick Laurence Field, 74, commander of the battleship King George V at the Battle of Jutland, Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff from 1930 to 1933; in York, England...
...destroyer Foote, six-month-old Timothy Sexton came face to face for the first time in his life with his seaman father, home from the Pacific. On a New Orleans dockside R. H. Bryant and his wife stood and looked at the spot on the quarter-deck of the battleship Mississippi where their son Jim had died. They wept and went away...
...hazard in that quarter-deck doctrine was that reactionary thinking in post-World War II might set in, not only among the battleship admirals (who actually were in retreat) but among the airmen. Men like Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, and even younger aviators like Rear Admiral Arthur Radford might become wedded to the carrier, which had spearheaded the war.* Not to be overlooked by prophets is the fact that after World War I the radicals thought the naval weapon of the future was the submarine. In 1913 amiable, conservative Admiral Richard S. Edwards...