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Hard and Welcome. The Navy also put in for its share of new production with a request for 500,000 tons of extra warships-in addition to the 3,596,000 tons of ships already scheduled for 1945. They will be big ships. Having cut back its destroyer-escort program, the Navy planned to commission only 206 warships this year, but their tonnage is only slightly less than that of the 415 warships the Navy got last year. The Navy also planned a sevenfold increase in rocket production...
...Japs were as badly off. Since the landings in Lingayen Gulf began, not one of their surface ships had appeared to dispute Allied control of the sea lanes. Instead, their own cargo carriers and escort craft were being bombed and strafed from Indo-China to the Ryukyus. Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet carriers (16, by enemy count) sent planes up & down the coast and the island chain. They hammered Hong Kong, Swatow, Amoy and Canton in China; Takao on Formosa; Okinawa in the Ryukyus. Primarily, their job was to keep the Japs from flying planes or shipping...
...needed when the battle of Luzon was fully joined. And it was essential that existing fields on Mindoro be fully protected against Jap counterattack, whether by land, sea or air. So convoys were formed up at Leyte and dispatched through the Mindanao Sea, with air cover provided by accompanying escort carriers...
Flying Leathernecks. From one of the Essex-class carriers flew two squadrons of new-type Chance-Vought Corsair fighters, piloted by Marine Corps aviators. The marines long ago had won their fight to fly from escort carriers (TIME, Oct. 23), but this was different; this was the big time. They went as escort for Avenger torpedo bombers. Grumman Hellcats with Navy pilots made up the rest of this carrier's complement. It had no dive-bombers-McCain and Thach never had believed in dive-bombers...
...September Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and an armed escort drove to Berchtesgaden to visit Hitler...