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This week Boeing proudly let out the 130,000-lb. secret. The new ship is Boeing's postwar superairliner, the "Strato-cruiser," in a military transport version. Boeing says the Stratocruiser can fly 100 passengers, in the plushiest kind of comfort, from New York to London in eleven hours; from New York to Los Angeles in seven. Clairmont Leroy Egtvedt, Boeing's conservative board chairman, published the startling figures...
Mitscher's Avengers. It was time for the first strike. Mitscher sent off powerful forces of Hellcats, Avengers and Hell-divers against both Jap fleets. In the central force, they damaged a battleship and a cruiser, both of which may have sunk. A light cruiser was torpedoed; it capsized and sank. Three battleships and three heavy cruisers absorbed both bombs and torpedoes, but pressed...
...They flew off hundreds of planes from their repaired fields. Although no less than 150 were shot down, some of them got in at the light carrier Princeton. She was bombed and set afire, gradually went to pieces as one explosion after another racked her slim 10,000-ton cruiser hull. When the main magazine went, she had to be sunk by U.S. gunfire...
After two hours, she lay on her side and went down quietly. After another hour, a smaller carrier went down. Yet another of the same (Titose) class was sunk by air attack. One of the Zuiho class was polished off by cruiser gunfire, and so was a destroyer flotilla leader. A damaged cruiser was knocked out during the night by a lurking submarine. Both battleships in the force were damaged...
Bulldozers to Beer. The story of Manus' building was typical. Seabees, trained on the Pacific coast for this specific job, landed there six months ago on the heels of the invading Army. Their boss was Commodore James E. Boak, who built the Espiritu Santo cruiser base...