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While the Third Fleet commander was having horse trouble off Japan (see above), Spruance of the Fifth Fleet held a press conference aboard the battleship New Jersey in Manila Bay. For those who assume that all admirals are intent upon the biggest postwar Navy obtainable, Spruance's views came as a little bombshell. Said he: the Navy should ,be substantially reduced; Okinawa should be a United Nations, instead of a U.S., base; U.S. bases in China or Formosa would not be practical; the Marianas, the Marshalls and the Carolines would be enough...
Died. Vice Admiral Willis Augustus ("Ching") Lee Jr., 57, Commander Battleships Pacific, who helped save the Guadalcanal invasion in 1942 by running his battleships past the P-T-boat advance guard ("This is Ching Lee. Get out of the way; I'm coming through," he radioed) to do battle with the Jap fleet (score: one enemy battleship and three cruisers sunk); of a heart attack; aboard a small boat carrying him to his flagship Wyoming; in Casco Bay, Me., where he was engaged in a special top-secret assignment...
...Cabinet meeting, and Navy Secretary James Forrestal and Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King presented him a fine table model of the battleship Missouri, flagship of the U.S. Third Fleet...
...Japs also had landed a blow: a bomber leveled off in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, and sent its torpedo crashing into a "major U.S. war vessel" (carrier or battleship...
Battle Results. Radar's fantastic capabilities have been dramatized again & again in battle. It was radar that enabled a .U.S. warship to smash the battleship Jean Bart at Oran with one salvo from 26 miles away. German radar-directed fire sank the British battle cruiser Hood, and British radar in turn tracked down the Bismarck. It was a radar operator who gave the tragically ignored warning of approaching Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor...