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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Infantryman Clegg had a box seat. The Revenge happened to be the sixth ship of Admiral Jellicoe's line of battle and the third to open fire. Five days after the battle, Ernest Clegg returned to France. Three weeks later he was severely wounded in the Battle of the Somme. In November 1918 his friend Captain Kiddle invited him out to the Revenge again to witness the surrender of the German Navy...
Planes. More for spectacle than for sales at last week's Show were such ships as the Navy's Grumman fighter, Sever-sky's pursuit ship, the Douglas observation plane, TWA's "Overweather" Northrop and the glider Albatross. Like Ziegfeld show girls, these unique planes drew first looks, but more serious attention went to the chorus of sturdy little troopers lumped by the name "flivver planes." First sale was an Arrow monoplane, powered with a Ford V8, which went to Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over...
...going very well. The first Russian Pacific squadron had already had one mauling, and the Russian army was on the defensive in Manchuria. So the Baltic Fleet was given sailing orders for the Pacific. The long cruise did not start auspiciously. The Oryol, Novikoff-Priboy's ship, ran aground shortly after leaving harbor. Before the fleet had rounded Denmark there were several false alarms about Japanese torpedo boats. In the North Sea some British fishing smacks were mistaken in the darkness for enemy destroyers. In a wild outburst of Russian firing the cruiser Aurora was hit (luckily by duds...
...almost a relief. Rozhestvensky's plan was rigidly simple-to force his column, battleships in the lead, through the Straits of Tsushima, head for Vladivostok. Since Togo's average speed was six knots faster, he had no trouble heading off the Russian column, kept pounding each leading ship in turn till it fell out of line...
...battle-station on the Oryol was in the sickbay. When the big guns started, "the heavens resounded like an iron dome struck by Titans' hammers." The Russian shells were armor-piercing but often nonexplosive; the Japanese shells exploded on contact, started hundreds of fires on the Russian ships, which were heavily overdecorated with woodwork. The Japanese gunners concentrated their aim at the leading Russian ships; the Russians shot at anything they could see. First casualty was the Oslyabya. Pounded by six Japanese cruisers, her guns went silent one by one. The jar of each Japanese hit was like "hundreds...