Word: yorktown
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Died. Vice Admiral Ralph E. Jennings (ret.), 72, commander of the aircraft carrier Yorktown (the famed "Fighting Lady") in 1944; of cancer, in Manhattan. Jennings skippered the Yorktown through some of the Pacific-Theater's toughest sea battles, including the crucial campaign for the Marianas Islands and the offensive at Truk...