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...another heaving expanse of ocean the heavy cruiser Portland, en route from Le Havre with 1,159 troops, had two of her G.I. passengers killed by a giant wave which crashed through a hangar door, a third washed overboard, and 52 injured, 22 of them so badly that they were put ashore to be flown home...
...tail propellers, it averaged 432 miles an hour from Long Beach, Calif., to Washington's Boiling Field. Flying time: five hours, 17 min utes, 34 seconds. After the plane landed, one motor caught fire. It was quickly extinguished, but the plane had to be ignobly pushed to the hangar...
...Midway was so vast (986 ft. long) and so intricately divided into watertight compartments below the hangar deck that a boot sailor could be excused if he took days to find his way around. But the vastness of the flight deck eased the operations of Commander John T. ("Tommy") Blackburn's Air Group 74; pilots even approved the emery-paper landing surface on the steel deck. The 5-inch, .54-caliber guns had beginners' luck and brought down a good bag of towed sleeves and radio-controlled drone target planes. Eventually, all departments would function as smoothly...
...Sara's hangar deck, the pilots' ready rooms and even the admiral's flag office had been turned into quarters for over 2,000 sailors, who tossed their leis in the water as the big carrier weighed anchor from Pearl Harbor. Soon 35 smaller escort carriers would be similarly transformed into Navy transports...
...Globemaster. Planemaker Donald Douglas, who once feared he would have to shut up shop when peace came, had done just that with some plants. But he was still in production. Last week, he wheeled out of his Long Beach, Calif., hangar the biggest commercial land plane in the world and gave it a test flight. It is the Globemaster, a military version of the Douglas DC-7, a 77-ton giant in which he expects to carry 108 passengers around the world at 300 m.p.h. with only two necessary stops on the way (see cut). In his pocket he already...