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...Navy still would not permit itemization of losses and damage, but said that no fast carrier, battleship or cruiser had been sunk by Kamikaze planes. Failing to knock out major vessels, the enemy had turned his tactic against more vulnerable escort carriers, destroyers, transports and auxiliary vessels. The net effect on U.S. fleet operations has been negligible, the cost in enemy aircraft and pilots high...
...Japanese Navy Ministry must have known that it could not repeat the air blow in sufficient strength. But that night a small Japanese task force built around the battleship Yamato-a light cruiser, a smaller light cruiser and nine destroyers-was permitted to steam out of the Inland Sea, glide through the dark along Kyushu's coasts and turn into the East China Sea on its mission toward almost certain destruction...
...long voyage home Franklin Roosevelt, sunning himself on the cruiser's deck, had made a decision to report to Congress on Yalta, in person and as soon as possible. Except for the blow of Pa Watson's death, he had returned from the Crimea refreshed in body, mind and spirit. Thirty-six hours after his return, he went to the House chamber...
...Servant of the Mighty One") walks with a slow, deliberate gait. The nine battle wounds of his youth, even the trouble some one in his groin, have not curbed his legendary virility, but they have reduced his ranging stride. Fortnight ago, when he met President Roosevelt on a U.S. cruiser in the Suez Canal (TIME, March 5), the King looked longingly at the President's well-worn wheelchair...
Died. Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson, 61, burly, jovial secretary and longtime military aide (since 1933) to Franklin Roosevelt; from a cerebral hemorrhage; aboard a cruiser returning with the President from the Yalta Conference (see U.S. AT WAR). His duties included combing the White House appointment list (reputedly he could make "no" sound like "yes"), fishing with the President and lending him his right arm in public (he eventually acquired a deft, left-handed salute). Said Franklin Roosevelt : "I shall miss him almost more than I can express...