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Retractable deck guns, eliminating the previous lag between surfacing and unlimbering conning-tower weapons, enable submarines to open fire almost at the split second of surfacing near their prey...
...student prefers to try for V-5, aviation cadet training leading to flying officer's commissions, he may do so instead of trying for V-7 and deck or engineering officer's commissions...
...Abandon ship!" Before they slid overside into the sea, to be picked up by destroyers and cruisers, all the men lined their shoes in orderly rows on the flight deck. As Captain Sherman followed the last of his crew overboard, another explosion shook the ship. A little later, lest she fall into Jap hands or endanger other ships, a U.S. destroyer torpedoed the Lexington's flaming hulk. "That," said Admiral Sherman, "was the end of the Lexington...
...hours later, Japanese torpedo-planes attacked the same carrier. Fighters on the flight deck, just in to refuel, took off with nearly empty tanks, flew through their own fire, beat off the attackers...
Deckle Edges. Either U.S. people have less time to play cards than they used to, or are making old cards last longer, reasoned the Treasury Department, on finding card-deck taxes (11? last year, 13? this year) in a sharp decline...