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Last week the Bern radio reported rumors that Stalin had died aboard a Red warship in the Black Sea. Vienna gossips said he was a victim of illnesses ranging from blood poisoning to cancer. The French radio at Brazzaville broadcast a Soviet Embassy denial. Washington and London half-believed that something had happened to the Generalissimo. Russian troops in Germany, Austria and the Balkans were said to be restive. Many U.S. newspapers prepared obituaries...
Ever since David Bushnell invented the first underwater warship (the Turtle, which tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up the British frigate Eagle in New York harbor in 1776), naval men have dreamed of a true submarine, i.e., one which would practically never have to come to the surface. Last week Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal revealed that the Germans came dangerously close...
Premier Suzuki's Cabinet took control of the People's Volunteer Corps from the Army and Navy. War Minister Anami ordered his Kwantung troops to fight to the death (Moscow said they were surrendering in droves). A Jap torpedo hit a U.S. warship off Okinawa, and Admiral Nimitz ordered the hovering Third Fleet, silent for two days, back into action (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
Battle Results. Radar's fantastic capabilities have been dramatized again & again in battle. It was radar that enabled a .U.S. warship to smash the battleship Jean Bart at Oran with one salvo from 26 miles away. German radar-directed fire sank the British battle cruiser Hood, and British radar in turn tracked down the Bismarck. It was a radar operator who gave the tragically ignored warning of approaching Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor...
...Ship, Old Hands. The warship Conway was one of the last of England's "wooden walls." Her antiquity was a planned part of her function as a training ship. Conway boys were meant to learn seamanship without the help of modern conveniences, and the heavy old cannon that still glowered through the square gun ports were part of a boy's lessons in naval history. To the greenhorn the Conway also looked grimly bare - until he discovered that in exactly ten minutes her crew could let down canvas walls, swing out hundreds of folding desks, blackboards and benches...