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...miles off the coast of Japan, Task Force 58 was launching an air assault against Shikoku and Kyushu when a Jap bomber dropped out of the low overcast, rocketed in over the bow of the 27,000-ton carrier Franklin ("Big Ben") and swept the length of her flight deck. Not until too late did antiaircraft crews get their guns on the raider. From the Jap's belly two 500-lb. bombs plummeted down...
Exactly scaled to one-ninth the size of an Essex-class carrier, she was prefabricated at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, trucked to the site in sections. Total cost: $35,000. Topside, she bristles with 20-and 40-mm. and five-inch guns, all exactly scaled. Parked on her flight deck are faithfully scaled models of Helldivers, Hellcats, Avengers and Corsairs (donated by the manufacturers). Her innards-which visitors may see if they buy a war bond-contain a model of a carrier's boiler room, a section of enlisted men's quarters complete with pin-up girls...
...story of "Memphis Bound" concerns the attempts of a group of Calliboga, Tennessee, Negroes of Lord-knows-what profession to produce "Pinafore" on the deck of an old Mississippi side-wheeler. The plot is sketchy--almost inadequate--by with "Pinafore" and Avon Long and Bill Robinson no one really cares...
...word on "Iron" Phil Masquelette. His weekends are spent seeing twin bills at the N.T.S. movie followed by two hours of open order drill. We understand old Sam Wolfe it better reached by asking for "the voice," up on the fourth deck. Shifting the scene to the fishing industry, we found Messrs. Unsinn, Vadakin, Vance, and Violand tripping the line fantastic, greys and all, in that order...
...ship later, when she vas going back for repairs. The flaming surface had never reached below the main deck, but there had been many casualties. She, like nearly every major ship hit by the Kamikazes, has returned to action...