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Crows & Bombing Planes. In 1895, after its defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, China was forced to cede Formosa to Japan. Admiral Viscount Kabayama, appointed Japan's first governor general, sailed down to Formosa in triumph, released from his flagship as a sign of victory a pair of crows. Their descendants still make Formosan daybreaks raucous...
...festivity of a luxury liner's departure for a 30-day pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean. When the convoy weighed anchor in Japan, wives & children waved goodbye from the shore and a brass band cheerily blared Anchors' Aweigh. On the fantail of the fleet's flagship, an impromptu clay pigeon shoot was organized...
While a band sounded ruffles and flourishes, Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, 62, commander of the Seventh Fleet at the crucial battle of Leyte Gulf (Oct. 25, 1944), solemnly stepped for the last time off his flagship, the carrier Enterprise, at Brooklyn Navy Yard, went into retirement after 46 years of Navy service...
...Great God on My Head Phumiphon Adundet,* the Power Coming from the Strength of the Earth, at long last stepped ashore from the flagship Sri Ayuthia onto Siamese soil, every temple bell in the land rang out a greeting...
Last week Korea's little flagship lay at one of Pearl Harbor's huge docks awaiting armament. All over her topsides officers and crewmen, dressed alike in greasy dungarees and broad smiles, were busy sprucing her up. "Almost one year we gave money for this ship," said the Bak Du-san's radio officer, Joung Won Sam. "We needed the money, but we needed this ship worse." His companion, the Bak Du-san's executive officer, nodded enthusiastically. "But we're going to keep up the contributions," he added. "If we get enough money...