Word: big-ship
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...Navy has been slow to adopt cruise missiles for offensive purposes, even though one admiral asserts: "Cruise missiles are categorically the most revolutionary development in naval warfare since nuclear power." The Navy is trying to make better use of missiles now, but in a way that still illustrates its big-ship fixation: it proposes to take two, and eventually four, World War II battleships out of mothballs and fit them as floating missile platforms. That will be neither quick nor cheap. Recommissioning the New Jersey, which has been docked at Bremerton, Wash., since the end of the Viet...
...sort of accidents that have been happening to small ships will in the future be happening to the very biggest ships, the so-called VLCCs (very large crude carriers). We may confidently expect a rising rate of major big-ship disasters in the decade ahead...
...Jaluit, 33 miles long, administrative center, has an airfield and a big-ship harbor...
...Navy had a new PT (see cut), stouter and better armed than the "expendables" that made Navy legend in the Philippines and off Guadalcanal. But more important to PT Corner was the fact that big-ship men now recognized the thunder-throated little craft as something more than a nuisance to maintain...
...getting commander who has long had a reputation in the Army flying service for getting what he needs. The Ferrymen's boss, slim, 45-year-old Colonel Robert Olds, who has been flying for the Army since he was commissioned in 1917, today is as fine a big-ship handler as there is in The Air Forces. Accounted one of the flying service's white-haired boys, handsome Bachelor Olds has flown Flying Fortresses on two good-will trips through South America, commanded a four-engine bombardment group, cracked many a record sitting in the pilot...