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...speed over 30 knots, a deadly main battery of nine 16-inch rifles. She first fired her guns in anger at Iwo Jima and Okinawa ; before the war ended, she had been hit by a Japanese suicide plane (but suffered no casualties and slight damage). On her broad deck, in 1945, the Japanese signed their surrender. By 1948 the Missouri was the only U.S. battleship in commission...
...revolved in turret round, And warned the Southern foe That ne'er a band of selfish men Our Union could o'erthrow' No more her ironclad deck shall boast The strength to make men free;--Sixth Naval District brass have scorned The Scourge of Slavery...
...Lieut. General Curtis E. LeMay. LeMay's main and somewhat irrelevant point was that the major U.S. blow should be "by strategic bombing." Would he vote for the Wherry resolution? "I don't know," said abrupt Curt LeMay, whose political interests are no wider than the flight deck...
...Anyone who wandered near would be accosted with, "Look at that peak. Let's climb it." And off the general and the unfortunate would go. His aides used to duck into the nearest tent when the general came out to scan the evening sky. At home he plays deck tennis, handball, likes camping and hunting. In Korea he gets most of his exercise by walking. Sometimes, to channel some of his physical energy, he climbs a hill and strides endlessly back & forth along the skyline above his camp. Said an aide, "It is a terrifying sight...
...Japan and blew up a train; of how the Sargo heartbreakingly fired 13 torpedoes at fat targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism plagued U.S. subs for two years); of how the Gato fetched up with an unexploded depth charge on its deck, and gingerly set it adrift in a leaky rubber boat; of how the Angler took aboard a batch of refugees which included a two-year-old, half-Filipino boy who was "smoking (and inhaling) a cigar between gulps of his dinner which he was receiving at his mother's breast...