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...thermonuclear warhead (which stays in U.S. hands), Thor can blast from British soil 15 minutes after the first alert, minutes later impact hundreds of miles inside Russia. Reliability, now an acceptable 50%, will be increased in later arrivals. Estimated date of readiness of Britain's first Thor squadron: December...
Thursday-The U.S. tries a third con voy. From the convoy leader, U.S.S. Gregory, TIME & LIFE'S Scot Leavitt reports: By 3 p.m. Destroyer Squadron 17 is in position off Quemoy, three of its ships 15 miles offshore, and Gregory just over three. "I don't think they dare come near us," says Gregory's skipper, Commander Felix G. Young, who has served in destroyers for 17 of his 27 years in the Navy. "But I've been shot at by Germans and Italians and Japanese and Russians and Chinese Communists before. If we get into...
...last visited Task Force 77 a year ago. Not only were her pilots flying within jet-age spitting distance of Red Chinese airfields, but Midway was having a run of hard luck. One F3H squadron had lost two pilots and three planes in accidents within the week. The day I joined Force 77 the squadron's skipper, Commander Walter Heider of Coronado, Calif., died when his throttle apparently stuck after landing and his plane plunged overboard out of control...
...Admiral Wallace ("Beak") Beakley steamed the carrier Essex and four destroyers from the Middle East, the big carrier Midway and the heavy cruiser Los Angeles from the West Coast. U.S. fighters rolled onto the ready line on Formosa, and Tactical Air Force sent out from the states a reinforcing squadron along with air cargo support planes from the Military Transport Service-all meaningful public warning that the U.S. means business...
...Pearl Harbor, Lieut. Commander Thach, now in command of Fighting 3, sailed out across the Pacific aboard the Saratoga. The carrier took a torpedo before the airmen ever got into a fight. Switching to the Lexington, Thach got his chance in combat off the Gilbert Islands. He and his squadron climbed into the sky, knocked down 19 out of 20 Japanese planes; Thach himself got three, and then-Lieut. Edward ("Butch") O'Hare, whose performance that day won him the Congressional Medal of Honor, killed five, damaged a sixth within six minutes. Used exclusively was the now famous "Thach...