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Malta to Yalta. For his second conference of the Big Three and his ninth with Winston Churchill, the President departed from Washington shortly after his Jan. 20 inauguration. He appeared at Malta on Feb. 2 on a bright and spotless U.S. battleship. He was wearing an old-fashioned tweed...
...spotlight of fleet activity was on flyspeck Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima), mid way between Guam and Tokyo, where the enemy persisted in repairing bomb-pocked airstrips in order to fly off planes against the B-29 base at Saipan. For an hour and a half, a 16-inch-gun battleship, heavy cruisers and destroyers poured shells into the 2½-by-5-mile island's airfields, gun emplacements and docks. Three enemy ships were destroyed. Earlier the same day, B-29s and B-24s had dumped almost 200 tons of bombs on the nuisance raiders' lair. The little...
Though Admiral King himself wears the wings of a naval aviator (won at 48), airmen point out that it has been a long time since he has flown a plane; to naval air's young Turks, he is still a ''battleship admiral...
...came from Britain's powerful (nine 16-in. guns), 33,900-ton battleship H.M.S. Rodney...
...late afternoon when the enemy task force was sighted, steaming in from the South China Sea, by a Navy search Liberator piloted by Lieut. P. F. Stevens of Joplin, Mo. Stevens reported his find: a battleship, a cruiser and six destroyers. Then he made a beeline back to Mindoro, gassed up and had his plane armed with four 500-lb. bombs. While other strikes were being set up, he flew back to the Jap task force's course, picked out the battleship as his target. A low-level run with his flying boxcar in the face of concentrated...