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...Launched April 19, 1943, the U.S. Navy's Canberra commemorated the Royal Australian navy's Canberra, sunk by torpedo and shellfire eight months earlier during the Battle of Savo Island in the company of U.S. cruisers Quincy, Vincennes and Astoria...
...confirmed" kills of U.S. aircraft. His close friend, the late Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, is credited by the Japanese with over 100. Nothing to prove it, of course.* Figures aside, Pilot Sakai was quite a flyer. During the Guadalcanal campaign he was put out of action when he jumped four Avenger torpedo planes, barely made it back to Rabaul. He lost an eye in the battle, and his description of how he was operated on without anesthesia is bloodcurdling. Sakai fought again, but soon learned that a half-blind fighter pilot in an outdated Zero was no match for the new planes...
...first aircraft carrier Langley, he turned to naval aviation. Not long afterwards Fighter Pilot Brown won Navy fame by scoring 60 hits out of 60 shots on a towed sleeve in five passes, a Navy gunnery record, and he advanced with the Navy from the old Liberty-engined torpedo plane ("It could make 70 m.p.h. going downhill") to the dive bombers and fighters of World War II. On his last scheduled carrier landing aboard the old Saratoga in 1941, his plane hook skipped over the arresting gear, and he crashed into the landing barrier at high speed. Badly shaken...
Died. Preston Thomas Tucker, 53, fast-talking auto designer who tantalized the car-starved U.S. public in 1946 with plans for the revolutionary (air-cooled rear engine, fuel injection, 130 m.p.h.) Tucker Torpedo, went bankrupt after producing a few hand-built models; of lung cancer; in Ypsilanti, Mich. Visionary Tucker was cleared in 1950 of U.S. charges of mail fraud and SEC violations, claimed Government meddling and malevolent auto tycoons did him in, by 1955 was riding another rear-engined dream, trying to promote $2,000,000 to build...
...apart an awkwardly shaped, 1,000-lb. chunk of rusted scrap, took over the acetylene torch himself when the workman failed to make satisfactory progress, got positive results whenthe object's outer casing began smoking and split open, hurriedly stopped salvaging when he peered inside, recognized a Japanese torpedo warhead...