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...performance as World War II's medium Sherman-and seven tons lighter. The T-42, a medium, will be about six months behind T-41 on the assembly lines. And on the blueprint horizon-but within sight -is the U.S.'s first modern heavy: T-43, a dreadnaught whose details are top secret...
...miles away aboard the press ship Appalachian, watchers saw the huge area of Bikini lagoon rise with lightning-like speed and in boiling violence. LSM 60 vanished in the twinkling of an eye. The 26,100-ton battleship Arkansas (the oldest surviving P.S. dreadnaught, dating from 1910), was next nearest the detonation point. She flopped over on her port side and was immediately swallowed...
Yesterday's 47 to 10 massacro inflicted by Company 3 over a stumbling Lowell five makes this navy dreadnaught undisputed master of the intramural loop. Adams and Daley were double trouble that the Bellboys couldn't seem to corral, in each broke through for eight field goals before the merciful final whistle put an end to the rout...
...same sign-up system may go into effect on the Charles if the boat club is faced with more crowds. As the situation now stands, new men of '47 won't be allowed to pilot the singles until September. More spectacular is the appearance of the 16 oar dreadnaught, Leviathan, with Bert Haines as the skipper...
This display, one of the few complete collections of that period when the Navy swung from wood to steel to the modern dreadnaught, portrays Naval evolution from 1883, the year in which the first four steel vessels were authorized, through 1917, the year in which the United States Navy entered its first major international...