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...Maxwell family's conglomerate is loosely organized into three clusters. The two publicly listed companies include the Mirror Group, which publishes the Daily Record, the Sunday Mail and Racing Times, as well as the Mirror newspapers. The flagship company, Maxwell Communication, controls such concerns as Macmillan books, the Official Airline Guides and P.F. Collier encyclopedias. The Robert Maxwell Group is privately held and owned 100% by the family. Its operations include the Oxford United Football Club and publications like the European, as well as stakes in newspapers in Israel, Hungary and Kenya...
...armada boasted six carriers, led by Nagumo's flagship, the Akagi, 400 warplanes, two battleships, two cruisers, nine destroyers and a dozen other surface ships. At an average 13 knots, refueling daily, the attack fleet pursued a course 3,500 miles through the empty expanse of the North Pacific. Its orders provided that "in the event an agreement is reached in the negotiations with the United States, the task force will immediately return to Japan," but nobody expected that to happen...
More heroic but no less doomed was Wake Island, a tiny atoll between Hawaii and Guam. A Japanese fleet closed in to start landing troops at dawn on Dec. 11. U.S. Marines under Major James Devereux scored four direct hits on the flagship Yubari and sank two destroyers. The force withdrew -- the first small U.S. victory in World War II and the only time in the war that defenders beat back an invasion fleet. In reporting this small triumph to Pearl Harbor, according to a story that may be apocryphal, one of Devereux's men added a bit of bravado...
Yamamoto, who had stayed in Japan during Pearl Harbor, took personal command of this huge armada. His flagship was the largest battleship in creation, the 64,000-ton Yamato, whose 18.1-in. guns had a range of more than 25 miles. His carrier chief was once again Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, the Pearl Harbor commander who had gone on to wreak havoc on the British fleet. With virtually no losses, Nagumo's planes had bombed British bases at Darwin, Australia, and Colombo, Ceylon; sunk the carrier Hermes and two cruisers; and driven the Royal Navy all the way across...
...bomber pilot based on the flagship Akagi during the Pearl Harbor attack, he is now a 75-year-old businessman...