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...into Libya all summer, as fast as they could get them past the British. That was not very fast. Since Nazi bombers retired to Russia, the British Fleet has had a better time of it. Last week British submarines drove tin fish into a 10,000-ton Italian heavy cruiser; and into a big Italian liner, believed to be the 23,635-ton Duilio and into the 11,398-ton Esperia; planes of the Fleet Air Arm torpedoed and destroyed an Italian destroyer off Tripoli; others bombed merchant ships in Tripoli harbor...
...show in the Mediterranean was I was on the bridge of the cruiser he was usin' for' a flagship. We had three other cruisers with us. Just like at Jutland, he was goin' ahead, scoutin' the enemy. 'Two Italian battleships, sir," I says. 'I can count, you bloody fool.' he says. Shortly was more Eyeties. 'Eighteen cruisers, sir.' I says. 'Dammit, man, I'm not blind,' he says. So then I decided I'd better hold my jaw, and shortly when there was more Eyeties I didn...
...black crepe dress, black low-heeled shoes, black silk stockings, and a pink hat, Atlanta's Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind), who described herself as "an old baseball player," batted a bottle of champagne on the prow of the light cruiser Atlanta, sent her down the ways in Kearny, N.J. Same day the Navy launched a sister ship, the San Juan at Quincy, Mass...
That was only their first meeting. Before they parted they knew each other a great deal better. Except on Sunday, when the Augusta pulled alongside the Prince of Wales and the President crossed a short gangplank to attend services, all the meetings took place on the U.S. cruiser...
...airfield-so that the 100-odd dismantled U.S. planes which have sat there since the fall of France could not be used in defense. That Martinique is defended only by an old washbasin of an aircraft carrier, the Béarn, and a first-rate light cruiser, the Emile Bertin, whose crews cried when they heard that France had capitulated to the Germans and who since then have hoed beans and corn ashore and bickered angrily about Vichy's waverings. He knows that the total French defending force comprises not more than 4,000 men, more than half native...