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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tactically Logical Cruiser for Modern War was what Author Peter Marsh Stanford called his unorthodox proposal. Besides four 14-in. guns it would carry, as anti-aircraft protection, twenty-four 5-in. and eighteen 40-mm. guns, four multiple pom-poms plus machine guns, six planes with two catapults on the quarterdeck and sixteen 21-in. torpedo tubes. Such a mighty cruiser, said Stanford, would be necessarily shorter, fatter and slower than the Brooklyn, but anyway "no ship can ever be designed fast enough to run away from enemy aircraft...
Down below us on the river was a large ship, and out of it came bursts of fire; balls of red flecked with white began shooting toward our plane. Japanese ack-ack guns and pom-poms were throwing everything but the kitchen sink at us. Then our plane began to tremble and shake, and from our belly red balls of fire began shooting down toward the Jap ship. Puffs of white smoke flowered in the air far below our plane. They were so far away I couldn't help laughing, but plainly we could see our tracers going straight...
Last week, while Burt Wheeler quoted the Navy to the effect that there was no armament available for merchant ships, Admiral Blandy was quietly preparing to supply them. The equipment available ranges from 5-in. guns down through 1.1-in. pom-poms and 20-mm. Oerlikons. Fitting out ships a few at a time, the Navy expects to have over 1,000 armed within four or five months. Armament will depend on the size of the ship: the largest will mount 5-in. guns fore & aft, two 20-mm. guns amidships, 1.1s topside wherever possible; the smallest will mount...
...protection for the ships is the one real miscalculation they made during the 20 years of peace." Design of the North Carolina class was begun before the Navy had waked up, presumably was altered in time. The North Carolina has 20 5-in. guns, an undisclosed number of 1.1 pom-poms to ward off air attack (the five-inchers are also designed for use against torpedo carriers). This anti-aircraft armament represents an enormous advance over the Navy's last battleship, West Virginia (commissioned in 1923), which carries only eight 5-in. anti-aircraft guns...
From 2 o'clock to 7:30 there was hardly a letup. Numbed by noise and heat, the gun squads kept their pom-poms hammering incessantly. The rest of the crew raced under fire to rescue casualties, take them to the dressing stations. Above them, the few British fighters in the sky hammered away at the bombers, raised their bag to twelve...