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...crewmen, none was seriously hurt. A World War II baby flattop with seven Nazi U-boats to its credit, the New Orleans-based Card had arrived in Saigon with a load of new helicopters, had been scheduled to sail in five hours with a return cargo of bullet-riddled, scrapped "banana" transport choppers. Because of the Card's deep draft, her superstructure remained above water, and within hours she was being raised for repairs. While the incident was hardly grave, it gave further evidence of growing Viet Cong boldness and the frequent inefficiency of South Vietnamese security measures. Only...
Poor combat-fatigued 20th Century-Fox may lose The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The studio needs an obsolete cruiser, an obsolete flattop and two obsolete submarines with deck guns. The Pentagon has refused to help with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Follow the Boys, even though M-G-M agreed to take out a scene that shows an admiral getting seasick. The Pentagon is, by and large, against comedies...
...Carom Shot." Aboard the big flattop -christened in October by Mrs. Christian Herter and scheduled to go to sea in May -were some 3,500 civilian workers, fitting out the newest queen of the seas. On the hangar deck Navy Lieut. Vito Milano, supervisor of hull construction, was getting things ready for a pep rally to celebrate progress (85% complete) and ask for more. A fork lift truck started to pick up a big steel trash bin; apparently the bin nudged a heavy steel plate, which sheared off the valve of a 500-gallon tank of diesel fuel, used...
...will fly from the carrier's canted deck were arriving at Key West, Fla., Naval Air Station for six months' training on the twelve Grumman 52F tracker planes and six Sikorsky 555 helicopters donated by the U.S. as the Minas Gerais' air group. By May, the flattop and her accompanying destroyers will be on station in the South Atlantic with an important mission: watching for Russian submarines...
...destroyer escorts made no match for Kurita. All "Ziggy" Sprague could do was to make smoke, launch his aircraft and run for his life. In the running fight, Kurita lost three heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, and three destroyers. But Sprague lost two destroyers, a destroyer escort, one baby flattop (another, the St. Lo, was sunk later by a Japanese kamikaze). He took hits on two carriers, a destroyer and destroyer escort and seemed doomed to far worse. Then came an amazing turnabout. Still recovering from his swim off Palawan Island, bedeviled by the destroyers, Kurita broke off the action...