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...Victory at the Norfolk Naval Operating Base (TIME, April 10). The new window will be unveiled this week in St. Andrew's Church, Cransley, Northamptonshire. A cigar may touch off the fireworks. The window shows the signing of the Atlantic Charter (1941). Below the guns of the battleship Prince of Wales sit President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, who is, as usual, smoking a cigar...
...Navy and the hard-pressed Marines who had landed on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7 were still hanging on by the skin of their teeth. The carrier Hornet was sunk, and the recently repaired Enterprise was badly damaged. The destroyer Porter was sunk. The brand-new battleship South Dakota was damaged (and her famed Captain Thomas L. Gatch wounded). The cruiser San Juan suffered "considerable" damage. "We sank no enemy vessels . . . but there were partial compensations. Two enemy carriers had been put out of action and four Japanese air groups had been cut to pieces...
...single 16-in. armor-piercing shell fired from a battleship costs...
...means all of the Navy's men man ships. About 750,000 of them belong to the Navy's air arm, which has grown mightily since battleship-bred admirals discovered there was more to air power than met their seamen's eyes. The Navy, which had 7,631 aviators in 1942, now has some...
There was plenty of dirty work to do. On Nov. 12-13, when a U.S. force sank a Jap battleship, five cruisers, five destroyers and eight transports, the O'Bannon scored hits on a battleship and a cruiser which far outweighed and outranged her. For six months of almost continuous naval warfare she was in the thick of the campaign which did not end until Guadalcanal was secured...