Word: battleships
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...mortar fire with the Marines landing in the Palaus and who almost lost his life on Leyte when a Jap bomb killed three men in the same hut with him. This week in Yokosuka harbor he watched the Rising Sun sink and the Stars and Stripes rise on the battleship Nagato, last capital ship of the once-mighty Jap Navy. A bomb had blasted a hole in her main deck "as big as a tennis court" and everywhere there was "the feeling of ruin and decay...
...decks of the giant U.S. battleship Missouri the brief, fevered course of Japan as a great power came to a quiet...
...veranda deck of the slate-grey battleship shone with the color of red-striped Russians, red-ribboned Britons, olive-drab Chinese, and row upon row of khaki-clad American admirals and generals...
...World War II the battleship was the dodo. In the next war-if there "is one-:the heavy bomber will probably be. For the heavy bomber is finished as the main striking instrument...
...this bustle did not mean that travel for travel's sake was back again. There were no bon voyage parties, no champagne, no baskets of fruit. The big liners, still painted battleship grey, slid quietly through the Narrows. The passengers were "on official business," or were European nationals returning home...