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...every big British naval action in the,, Mediterranean. In March, when the British in one night in the Battle of Matapan knocked out an Italian battleship and sank a half-dozen cruisers and destroyers, Correspond ent Allen got a grandstand view from the bridge of Admiral Cunningham's flagship Warspite. He was with the British squad ron which blasted 5,000 Nazi troops at tempting a surprise landing at Crete...
...Admiral Sir Tom Phillips put to sea with his Fleet (which had only been his Fleet for ten days, since his arrival at Singapore to meet his flagship, the new 35,000-ton Prince of Wales), he had fixed in his mind the opposition he would meet. "We are out looking for trouble," he signaled, "and no doubt we shall find it. We hope to surprise the enemy transports tomorrow and we expect to meet the Japanese battleship Kongo." Admiral Phillips said not a word about Japanese airplanes. He went to sea without air protection...
...record in China, Isoroku Yamamoto's Navy displaces better than its own weight in pride, and he has grown up with that pride. He graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in time to lose the first and second fingers of his left hand aboard Admiral Togo's flagship Mikasa in the great battle off Tsushima in 1904. Down the years he has absorbed and fostered the morale of Japan's Navy, the crafty conservatism of Japanese naval statesmanship, pride in such things as the superiority of Japanese Navy bombings over Army bombings of Chungking, 600 miles from...
...soup fog, he heard a destroyer's warning siren, somewhere off his bow. Promptly, without consulting his fleet commander, he ordered the line to stop. Hauled up on the carpet for breach of regulations, he exploded: "If I couldn't see, how the hell could the flagship at the end of the line?" He was officially rebuked, unofficially applauded...
...show in the Mediterranean was I was on the bridge of the cruiser he was usin' for' a flagship. We had three other cruisers with us. Just like at Jutland, he was goin' ahead, scoutin' the enemy. 'Two Italian battleships, sir," I says. 'I can count, you bloody fool.' he says. Shortly was more Eyeties. 'Eighteen cruisers, sir.' I says. 'Dammit, man, I'm not blind,' he says. So then I decided I'd better hold my jaw, and shortly when there was more Eyeties I didn...