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...well-placed torpedoes might do for the Iowa, but she is so speedy that a 21-knot submarine (even slower submerged) would be hard put to it to get into firing range or draw a bead on her. A destroyer trying it would likely get sunk. A mine could only sting the Iowa. Her heavy guns match any on land or sea, and with them she could have taken on the whole German battle fleet of Jutland. On the surface, these new ships can take care of themselves...
...Also building (for commissioning in 1943-44) are six more battleships, the Iowas. Monsters of 45,000 tons, they reportedly will have more than 35 knots of speed, heavier protection than the 27-knot Carolinas...
...power. A typical task force in 1942 warfare consists of one or more carriers, two to four heavy cruisers, one to two light cruisers, six to eight destroyers. Task-force commanders, sniffing for bad weather to screen their movements, would welcome the addition of the new 25-to-28-knot battleships to their fleets, valuable in pumping shells ashore to cover landings, and to engage enemy battleships. But task-force commanders cannot use the husky old tubs of battleships that the Japs attacked in Pearl Harbor; the older 18-to-20 knot battleships are through as striking-force units. Speed...
...good old days when pinball was threatening baseball as the national pastime. Today the summer soldiers have fallen by the way and only the devotees remain. Harry's Arcade Spa, located under the wing of Mother Advocate, is the mecca of this latter group, the boys that "care." A knot of them, mostly from Adams House, gather after almost every lunch and dinner to practice their pinmanship. They look with disdain upon the more vulgar pin parlors on Mt. Auburn Street; places where no one seems to care...
...plane, shimmering in the violent sun, circled the wastes around the airdrome, glided home and touched the earth of India. U.S. mechanics swarmed to their tasks. U.S. officers, brown in khaki tropicals, made a respectful knot a little way from the plane door, waiting. Out stepped their commander, the commander of all U.S. Air Forces in India: Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton...