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...works into his painting some dramatic animal-like machine like the one this week. They are almost his trademark today; perhaps you remember the flying freight-cars behind Air Transport's General George-the sea serpent submarines around Nazi Admiral Doenitz-or the pistol-pointing battleship behind smirking Admiral Nagano of the Japanese Navy...
...spent 14 of his 32 years in the Navy on shore-in Navy yards or at the Naval War College. His most important seagoing job had been skipper of the battleship Mississippi. He ran a clean and happy ship-with no monkey-business. He had acquired a solid engineering background and a reputation as a tactician...
...fool. He is a single-minded man who has dedicated himself to warfare. He is a battleship man by upbringing, but he is no "battleship admiral." During the raid on Truk, airmen privately and bitterly complained because he sent battleships in to finish off Jap warships which had already been damaged by dive bombers. Airmen thought they should have had the glory of the final kill...
Without maligning Jake Fitch, they were certain that his appointment indicated that the Navy was still sticking to sacred seniority. It looked as if the generally younger admirals who had been airmen from the start would have to wait their turns-at least so long as the battleship admirals hold the reins...
Died. John Harper Narbeth, 80, whose design for H.M.S. Dreadnought in 1906 revolutionized battleship building; in Gloucester, England...