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...seven cruises (26 years in all) Lou Diamond has served all over the world. He fought at Belleau Wood, four more major battles of World War I. He knows Shanghai and Guantanamo like old homes, has enough campaign medals to pose for a liquor...
...over there in those trees and don't move until I tell you." Tunisia was far from wooded Georgia and bloody Chickamauga, far from the tableland beside the Tennessee where Grant won the battle of Shiloh in spite of himself, far even from the foreign forest of Belleau where the living Marines grew so tired they lay down beside their dead friends and slept under shell fire. Tunisia seemed another world, another time almost-it was the place where the Battle of Zama was fought and the arrogant Hannibal was beaten...
...every carrier lost, the U.S. will soon have acquired two. This week the Navy launched the seventh new one since Pearl Harbor-the Cowpens, fourth of the 10,000-ton cruisers converted to carriers (the others: Princeton, Independence, Belleau Wood). To be launched this week is the new Yorktown, fourth of the Navy's 25,000-ton regular carriers (others: Essex, new Lexington, Bunker Hill). Seven more of the Essex class, as well as more Princetons, are being built...
Aircraft carrier launchings, such as this week's Bunker Hill and the converted cruiser Belleau Wood, are being announced with increasing frequency, but probably very few new carriers will be ready for action before next spring. The loss of four leaves the U.S. with only three big flattops in service, but at least seven more, not including increasing numbers of small, converted merchantmen, should be carrying planes into battle before...
...same red blood that coursed the veins of the men who beat the flower of the German Army at Belleau Wood, St. Mihiel and the Argonne, and broke the Hindenburg Line, flows swiftly, too, through the veins of the heroes of the glorious victories of the Coral Sea and Midway...