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This week, still feeding out the story of the Japanese Kamikaze attacks in small doses, the Navy told how another carrier, the Ticonderoga, had been knocked out of action by suicide flyers. Among those who have sailed aboard the Ti is TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod. This is his story of the ship, which was laid up for repairs for 59 days, is now back with the fleet...
...hell." When the ship passed through the Canal Zone last fall, he saw to it that nearly all of his 3,000 men got shore liberty at the entrance or the exit. Some had to be carried aboard, but every man made it back to the ship. When the Ti set out from San Diego, only one man deserted...
...crew made up chiefly of kids from The Bronx, Brooklyn and South Boston, and Idaho-born Dixie Kiefer knew how to handle them. The Ti was ragged at first-she would sometimes zig when she was supposed to zag. Her stack often poured smoke. But she settled down. Soon she was breaking records for launching and recovering planes. The raw kids became sensationally good...
Please don't hide behind the skirts of "optional spelling,"" because the only permissible variations are 1) substitution for euphony of s for the fifth pair of Is (letters 40 and 41); and 2) ti or ty for dy (letters...
...According to Chinese claims the first use of a magnetic compass was by Chinese Emperor Hwang-ti in a battle in 2364 B.C. To guide his warriors through an enemy fog screen, he mounted on a cart a magnetized figure which steadily pointed south. But the real origin of the compass and its first use is uncertain...