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Disaster's Messengers. The Red Fleet, which now has a chance to regain domination of the Black Sea, is headed by an ancient 12,000-ton craft called a battleship 33 years ago. But it also includes five cruisers, 27 modern destroyers, 50 submarines, a flock of 60-ft. PTs, a small aircraft carrier (named Stalin...
Captain Barker was the Massachusetts appointee to the Naval Academy in 1903. He graduated in 1907 and was on the battleship "Nebraska" and the armored cruiser "South Dakota" during the next few years, when he saw Central and South America, the South Seas, and Asiatic Station...
...then assigned to the battleship "Michigan" and later to the destroyer "Nicholson," at which time he received the Navy Cross...
...months beribboned Navy flyers have whispered behind waving hands of a dream plane they could hardly wait to fly. It was supposed to combine the best features of fighter and bomber, have the fire-power of a small battleship, be as big a jump ahead of the pistol-hot Hellcat as that airplane was ahead of the Wildcat. Last week came first acknowledgment of the Navy's super-fighter, casually mentioned in the Truman Committee report...
...battleship in the South Pacific: Mr. Big, in which some teen-age cutups finally convince their teacher that jitterbugging is more important than an education...