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...genial president, accompanied by Jim Grisham, was there seeing that the wheels were well oiled--always an eye for his responsibilities. Harry Magnuson is that sort of guy. They went from the dance to the Essex for more adventures 'til Harry finally was worn out and started dozing. It's reported that this ended the evening...
...multiplied its air power 20 times, adding a total of 57,600 planes. In a report of his own, Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, chief of naval air operations, noted that the Navy had 34,071 planes on hand June 30*; that among some 100 carriers, 14 are first-line Essex class, nine are Independence (converted cruiser) class...
Beside the lordly first-line carriers of the Essex class they look like tugboats with a flight deck. They carry only a score or so of aircraft. They are called CVEs, nicknamed "baby flattops" and they are designed for dirty, routine jobs-transporting planes, providing air cover for plodding convoys. But they have become the pets of the Navy Department, which this week gave them a big share of the credit for speeding up the Pacific...
...tearful earful from Nina, waited until Colonel Perón left town last week for an inspection trip in Cordoba Province. Then one night, shortly before Evita was scheduled to go on the air as star of My Kingdom For Love, a version of the Elizabeth-Essex romance, someone in the control room switched on the microphone prematurely. Listeners all over Argentina heard the announcer say: "That tart...
Last week's raid on "the pearl of the Indies" was puny, as carrier raids go nowadays: less than 100 planes, hardly one Essex-class complement. But there were promising factors: 1) for the first time Naval forces from the Mountbatten, Nimitz and MacArthur commands joined together; 2) Javanese, who have been wooed incessantly by Japanese propaganda, might begin to doubt that Tojo's forces were as all-powerful as he claimed; 3) surprisingly few Jap planes rose in defense; two of these were shot down, 19 others were destroyed on the ground; at least one ship...