Word: naval
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...naval commander in World War II, Prince Philip, 46, is predictably a demon in a dinghy. A brisk breeze rippled the sea as the duke sailed a Flying Fifteen sloop to the starting line off the Isle of Wight in his first skipperly confrontation with that not notably nautical upstart, Prince Charles, 18. But with the aid of a ringer crewman, Flying Fifteen Designer Uffa Fox, Charles finished a respectable 13th in the field of 22, chantied snatches of The Pirates of Penzance as he sailed past his dead-last daddy. "He's going to be a great helmsman...
...scale models of aircraft and rockets, Hotz directs his growing magazine. He already has bureaus in London and Geneva; this fall he plans to open another in Bangkok. "With 27 airlines providing service," he says, "this city is an aerial crossroads of the world, just as Singapore was a naval crossroads in the past...
Until now, only a few naval and scientific vessels used the Transit system, largely because the shipboard equipment is so expensive. Custom-built, each receiver costs between $21,000 and $35,000, compared with $5,000 to $10,000 for a LORAN rig. In addition, each ship needs a $25,000 computer. The Navy hopes that commercial manufacture will lower the unit cost, allowing more Transit use by Navy as well as merchant ships. Last week most details of the system were being turned over to interested U.S. electronics manufacturers. The company that can most efficiently simplify the system...
Pearl Harbor was less than six months past when Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto set out to destroy what remained of American naval power in the Pacific. By invading Midway, a fueling station and airbase 1,136 miles west of Hawaii, Yamamoto hoped to draw the last U.S. carriers and cruisers out of Pearl and crush them with his superior firepower. What he did not know was that Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's Naval Intelligence experts had cracked the Japanese code and had pieced together the entire operation (including a diversionary thrust toward the Aleutians). When Yamamoto's striking...
Incredible Victory will not replace Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's superb military analysis of Midway (Volume IV of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II), but as a you-are-there reconstruction it deserves shelf space alongside...