Word: flattop
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...story of this flattop begins with green young men, many of them unbelievably boyish, endlessly rehearsing their deck and air routines, or loafing in the sunlight as their floating town lounges through the improbable colors of the Gulf Stream and edges her way through the Panama Canal. While they loaf, they wonder. Their destination is still as dead a blank to them as their experience of combat. Then, well out in the Pacific, in some rough, wonderful shots, they meet a tanker and refuel, and know at least that their job is to be long and businesslike...
Having laid the little-lamented assistant for disbursing to rest along with Flattop, the class is now busily engaged in perusing railroad time tables for the trip home, and seeking apartments for the new crop of blushing brides expected to arrive circa 4 June. All is proof that time runs quick as Ohliger and W. T. Johnson will agree...
...Correspondents' uniforms were thicker than usual around TIME'S offices last week. Army & Navy Editor Perry Githens came back from 45 days on a baby flattop. Foreign News Editor Fill Calhoun returned from the Mediterranean theater where he went last August. Bill Chickering got back from the landings on Bougainville and Kwajalein. And Bureau Chief Bill Fisher came home from the Far East for the first time since...
British naval officials made a surprising announcement: one-third of all British Fleet Air Arm flyers now train in the U.S., with U.S. planes and instructors. Many of them go to war, when training is done, aboard U.S.-built "baby flattop" escort carriers (see cut). Main reasons for U.S. training: 1) Britain's airfields are jammed by R.A.F. and U.S. flyers; 2) interchangeability of men and equipment will be valuable in future joint fleet operations against Japan...
...convoy crews, a single-engined land plane so far out to sea. It could mean only that a carrier was in the vicinity. But carrier escort, too, was unusual for an ordinary convoy. Hours later the crew spotted the answer: up over the horizon came a "baby flattop," a carrier converted from a merchantman, escorted by several old four-stacker destroyers. By blinker light the little carrier reported...