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...Navy was first to hack away. Before the Jap surrender offer had become poop-deck patter, it stopped construction of 95 ships, canceling contracts totaling $1.200,000,000. Halted in various stages of construction were the 45,000-ton battleship Illinois, the 27,100-ton carriers Iwo Jima and Reprisal, 20 heavy and light cruisers. (Still abuilding were 167 Navy ships, including one battleship, eleven aircraft carriers; still unanswered: what to do with the partly built battle hulls...
...that turning point in the Pacific war, the full carrier-and-battleship fleet of Japan might have won. But the task force sent by the pennywise, pound-foolish admirals was defeated by a U.S. task force which, though inferior in quantity, was superior in quality. The enemy lost the pride of his carrier fleet: the big Kaga and Akagi, the smaller Hiryu and Soryu...
...unusual translation was that of Leading Stoker Walter Edwards, formerly of the Royal Navy, to Civil Lord of the Admiralty. There he will sit among the senior admirals. Before he was elected to Parliament (1942), Stoker Edwards was on the dangerous Murmansk convoy run. Next time he boards a battleship officially, he will be piped over the side, pass between saluting side boys...
There are enough such specialties to sink a battleship. But they keep Anchors Aweigh paced, buoyant and prettily afloat...
...graduates as air-wise as West Point's; sardonic Vice Admiral "Genial John" Hoover, 58, one of the Navy's crack administrators, who gets the staff job left vacant by Jack Towers; Rear Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 54, who will be taken from command of a battleship division and given an unannounced post ashore-probably Chief of the Bureau of Personnel, one of the most worrisome posts in Washington...