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...cruisers, swarms of miscellaneous craft. With them were coming transports bearing 50,000 soldiers, hundreds of crated airplanes. Their aim? was to effect a landing on the Central American coast, set up their planes, smash the Panama Canal. Sharp eyes could easily have identified Rear-Admiral Frank Herman Schofield aboard the battleship California as the commander of this Black enemy fleet...
...Balboa lay the Blue defensive squadron under Vice Admiral Arthur Lee Willard aboard the Arkansas, only battleship in the line. To him had been assigned seven light cruisers, 22 destroyers, the giant aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga, a flock of submarines, the dirigible Los Angeles (used for the first time by international consent in war games). To drive the Black fleet back from a 1,000-mile jungle-fringed coast line Admiral Willard relied chiefly on a force of 225 battle planes...
Just after the Los Angeles with Assistant Secretary Ingalls aboard had made an important "spot," a dozen Black planes whizzed down upon her, riddled her silvery sides. "You're sunk! Pleasant voyages," flashed the umpire's crisp radio to the dirigible which thereafter was forced out of the game. In theory the Hoover Cabinet had lost its most gallant junior member in the wastes of the Pacific...
...four-day battle was ending by prearrangement the Arkansas was hit by a torpedo and went to the bottom. Sinking, Admiral Willard flashed command of the Blue fleet to Admiral Reeves aboard the Saratoga...
Died. Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, 76, inventor of the Parsons steam turbine, chairman of C. A. Parsons & Co., British engineering firm; aboard the Duchess of Richmond, on a West Indies cruise...