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Politeness. Thanks to the Jap trick of not reporting many a prisoner, there was the cheering word that men long believed dead had survived. Three hundred men of the cruiser Houston, unreported for the three-and-a-half years since their ship was sunk in Sunda Strait, were discovered alive in Thailand. Vanished heroes came back as it were from the dead: Captain Arthur Wermuth, the "one-man army" of Bataan; Commander Richard Hetherington O'Kane, of the missing submarine Tang; Commander Winfield Scott Cunningham, naval commander at Wake Island...
Blacked out and unescorted, the heavy cruiser Indianapolis was 39 hours out on the moonlit Philippine Sea, bound for the U.S.'s great new anchorage at Leyte. She had carried vital materials for the first atomic bomb from the States to Guam, and now, on Sunday, July 29, was logging 17 knots to rejoin the fleet. Shortly before midnight the end came for the veteran (commissioned in 1932) clipper-bowed "Indy." Two explosions on her starboard side smashed her communications, fouled her controls. She sank within 15 minutes...
Before he lost his sea legs, many stories about the voyage of the cruiser Augusta had been told around Washington...
Battle Results. Radar's fantastic capabilities have been dramatized again & again in battle. It was radar that enabled a .U.S. warship to smash the battleship Jean Bart at Oran with one salvo from 26 miles away. German radar-directed fire sank the British battle cruiser Hood, and British radar in turn tracked down the Bismarck. It was a radar operator who gave the tragically ignored warning of approaching Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor...
...landing at another field. Thus the route that Harry Truman took into Plymouth was largely unpeopled. From Queen Anne's Battery, near the spot from which the Pilgrim Fathers departed for America in 1620, the President and his party went promptly to the U.S.S. Augusta, the battle-tested cruiser which had carried him to Europe. Soon a gleaming, mahogany-trimmed barge from the newly painted battle cruiser H.M.S. Renown chugged alongside. The President shoved off in it, with Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes and Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy...