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...unopposed destruction of the U.S. Pacific fleet, the enemy found Douglas MacArthur's Far East air force neatly arrayed for extermination on Clark Field in the Philippines. The only remaining major deterrent to Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia consisted of the British battleship Prince of Wales and battle cruiser Repulse-and they were sunk three days later. Though Corregidor held out for five months, General Jonathan Wainwright's surrender-"with broken heart and head bowed in sadness but not in shame"-was the greatest capitulation in the history of U.S. arms...
...Marine Corps defender of Wake, did not send the famed message: SEND US MORE JAPS. The message was idly tapped out by an unknown signalman. Nor did the U.S.S. Houston sink four Japanese transports off Java's Bantam Bay. They were actually torpedoed in error by the Japanese cruiser Mikuma, Toland reveals. General Imamura assumed that the Houston was responsible, and his chief of staff was too embarrassed to contradict...
...five years, the Navy has talked hopefully of some day having a nuclear surface fleet to match its atomic submarines. But nuclear ships cost up to approximately 50% more than their conventional counterparts, and the pinch of economy has restricted the Navy's budget to the Enterprise, the cruiser Long Beach, and two frigates still to be built...
...years as Ciudad Trujillo), a crowd of youths clutched the corners of a Dominican flag and raced through the streets, shouting "Liberty by Christmas!" They did not have that long to wait. For the crowds that gathered excitedly on waterfront George Washington Avenue to watch the U.S. missile cruiser Little Rock and a destroyer escort patrolling just beyond the three-mile limit, liberty had already arrived. The Trujillo regime came tumbling down in the Dominican Republic last week, and a chartered DC-6 bore off to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 29 members of the Trujillo family. Would he ever return...
...known that the score would deal with the October Revolution and that it was "dedicated to the memory of Lenin." The music is divided into four parts: revolutionary Petrograd, Razliv (the place where Lenin went into hiding to avoid arrest by the provisional government), Aurora (after the cruiser that fired on the Winter Palace), and the finale. Dawn of Mankind. The symphony avoids the dark colors and heavy textures of traditional Russian orchestral music; it recalls far better works in its sharply staccato rhythms and in the superb ingenuity of some of its string sequences. But not even as fine...