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Some of us put on shows for servicemen, theDance Club hopping through Mexican steps, theFrench Club inventing a cabaret for the crew of aFree French warship in Boston Harbor. For thisevent, from a record, I learned to sing "LeFiacre." Later, I corresponded with one sailor ashis maraine-de-guerre(godmother-of-war)--until French censors found, inone of his letters to me, a snapshot of his ship.For this lapse, my godson-of-war did some time inthe brig...
...imperial navy's World War II flagship), the vessel is the first in the world propelled by superconducting magnets that generate a ! powerful jet of water. Such a stealth design so far exists only in the imaginations of Western engineers. The Yamato, of course, is not a warship. But if Japan wanted to build a war machine, it has just the technology for a formidable fleet...
...maneuvered between 100 and 200 miles apart while their planes attacked. The result included some absurd errors. Several Japanese planes tried unsuccessfully to land on the deck of the Yorktown; several American pilots tried unsuccessfully to bomb the cruiser Australia. In the first U.S. attack on a major Japanese warship, though, bombers from the Lexington and the Yorktown trapped and sank the 12,000-ton light carrier Shoho; nearly 700 of her 900 crewmen went down with her. Lieut. Commander Robert Dixon triumphantly radioed, "Dixon to carrier, scratch one flattop...
...More Iraqi planes and a damaged warship reportedly limped to Iran yesterday...
...would lend its imprimatur on this report." The Pentagon's concern is understandable. There is hardly a unit of the modern military that does not depend on the heavy use of some kind of electronic ! equipment, from huge ground-based radar towers to the defense systems built into every warship and plane...