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...sale-or-lease item last week when Henry Ford 2nd announced that the Ford Motor Co. has no postwar use for the 1,576-acre factory. But young Mr. Ford justified Willow Run's construction in 1941. Said he: "The plant is as expendable as a battleship-and no more expensive, either...
...incessant bombing of Berlin-which reconnaissance pilots called "a dead city" -and smashed Potsdam, cradle of the German army. The British also attacked German ports and shipping off the north coast. After a raid on Kiel, where the flyers saw a tremendous explosion, reconnaissance photographs showed the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, capsized and sunk in the inner basin...
...Navy still would not permit itemization of losses and damage, but said that no fast carrier, battleship or cruiser had been sunk by Kamikaze planes. Failing to knock out major vessels, the enemy had turned his tactic against more vulnerable escort carriers, destroyers, transports and auxiliary vessels. The net effect on U.S. fleet operations has been negligible, the cost in enemy aircraft and pilots high...
...Manila Harbor, the Japs aboard Fort Drum, the 335-foot "concrete battleship" built on the rocks of El Fraile Island, refused to surrender. Warships knocked the twin-gunned turrets out of action, but bombs & shells bounced off the fort's 18-foot-thick topside and the Japs greeted all comers with small-arms fire. Then Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey of the Seventh Amphibious Force and Major General William C. Chase of the 38th Division got up the war's oddest naval task force and sent it out to reduce the fort. TIME Correspondent William Gray, who went...
...little eight-landing-craft task force then withdrew and waited for the time fuses to work. The 85-pound charge went off like a popgun. It was disappointing. Then the "battleship" really erupted. A flat piece of steel, blew up like wastepaper in a column of grey smoke. Concrete chunks showered the water for hundreds of yards around. From a hole on top, reinforcing steel pieces stuck up like pitchfork prongs. Smoke poured out of everywhere-from the sallyports, vents, turrets. If the concussion didn't kill the Japs, Colonel Soule (promoted to brigadier general the next...