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Possibly sunk were a battleship, five cruisers and seven destroyers...
...solution (by British engineers) was ready by Dday. Sixty old ships (including H.M.S. Centurion, one of the earliest dreadnoughts, and the French battleship Courbet) followed the invasion armada. They were scuttled to form five breakwaters along the French coast, to provide immediate anchorage...
...ahead the bulky, unmistakable shape of a battleship winks a bright orange light. Then the soft thudding slap comes over the water: that blinker was a 14-inch salvo. Cruisers, battlewagons and tin cans are standing in amazingly close to the shore, pounding away with all their guns. We knew the island was to catch some 12,000 rounds of projectiles, 5-inch or bigger. But that was just a statistic; now we see it. We hear the blast of the big guns and the ripping-silk sound of the heavy shells sailing to their targets. We see the warships...
When Grumman built these floats, in an unconventional design, the Navy said they were too light, would collapse. Roy & Jake staked their lives on their design. They climbed into a Navy plane behind a Navy pilot, were catapulted successfully from a battleship. The Navy ordered six more floats, and then gave Grumman a contract for an experimental fighting plane. This turned out to be the first Navy fighter in the world with retractable landing wheels, and it dazzled the Navy with a speed of 206 m.p.h. Grumman landed its first big Navy order for 27 fighters, worth...
This week U.S. forces were going after Brittany's chief port with everything they had. Waves of bombs broke over the harbor, destroyed a German light cruiser, heavily damaged a destroyer and 14 cargo ships. England's ancient and honored battleship War spite, serenely standing 18 miles out, in 150 minutes plunked 212 rounds into Brest's forts, knocked out four big-gun batteries...