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...hitting power was a greatly elongated version of the high-velocity 88-mm. gun. In one model the monster's frontal armor was six-inch steel plate, slanted at high angle to bounce shells off. But in another version the Königstiger was reportedly a true land battleship-its turret faced with twelve inches of armor, probably impenetrable to all but the heaviest field-artillery projectiles...
Then, as he vomited gasoline and seawater, the monstrous form of a battleship bore down on him. He had managed to get his waterproof flashlight in hand. He pressed the button, waved the light overhead. The battle wagon swept past...
Princess Elizabeth, 18, heiress presumptive to the throne of England, christened her first battleship, the mightiest ever built in the British Isles. The craft (name unrevealed, but "an honored one in British naval tradition") is supposed to be about the size of the U.S.'s new Iowa class battleships (world's largest), is expected to cut its teeth on the Japanese in the Pacific...
...captain of the midget sub who performed the feat of penetrating harbor nets and mapping Battleship Row got the identities of the U.S. warships all wrong, put many of them at the wrong moorings...
When the U.S. Navy's score of enemy destruction was finally complete last week, it was not greatly different from the summary published two weeks ago. The Japs had lost two battleships, four carriers, six heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, an undetermined number of destroyers. Severely damaged and ticketed for months of repair (perhaps under U.S. bombing) were a third battleship, five cruisers, seven destroyers. Less hard hit, but damaged, were six battleships, five cruisers, ten destroyers...