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...submarine's commander gave the Robin Moor half an hour to abandon ship. The passengers were roused. Three more boats were lowered. As the sun rose, after the boats were in the water, the submarine fired a torpedo into the Robin Moor amidships, shelled her for 23 minutes. She went wearily down by the stern...
Behind this agitation was a rising awareness of air power's decisive part in World War II. Had not the German Luftwaffe conquered Crete? Had not British torpedo planes nabbed the German Bismarck, laid her low for the kill? Did not another British torpedo plane last week hunt down a Nazi pocket battleship, send her limping home (see p. 44)? And did not all these facts add up to the conclusion that the U.S. ought to copy Great Britain's independent R.A.F., the Nazi Luftwaffe, and turn its air power over to independent, unfettered airmen? Most Congressmen...
...week, it would of course have to fight with the 1,800-odd combat planes it has. Today the fleets have their full complements of men and planes. That is, each of Admiral Towers' six carriers has a squadron of fighters, two squadrons of scouts, one squadron of torpedo planes (which can also serve as bombers, carry either an 1,800-lb. torpedo or three 500-lb. bombs). Battleships and cruisers have their normal numbers of catapulted scout observation and bomber planes...
Pictured on page 19 are types of carrier planes which would bear the brunt of naval air war if it comes before the ships now on order are available: Grumman fighters, designed to protect the fleet from enemy attack by destroying enemy planes; Douglas torpedo planes, for attack on enemy vessels; Curtiss scout bombers, whose dual role is to scout and to pepper the enemy ships with light bombs...
National Youth Administration has more than 400,000 youngsters enrolled in its 4,300 workshops, sends them to jobs at the rate of about 25,000 a month. In their own shops, housed in deserted factories and equipped with secondhand machinery, NYA enrollees make army cots, tool chests, torpedo parts. Last year they built six airports, improved 14. A big NYA expansion is slated next year; its budget will...