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Neither was he alarmed when, early one morning, a "Black" scout plane reported six destroyers, one battleship, four cruisers, anchored off Molokai, the island nearest to Oahu. That was merely the advance contingent of the attacking U. S. Armada, coming to rescue Pearl Harbor from "The Enemy...
They will leave Honolulu on July 1 and visit Pagopago (Samoa), Auckland and Wellington (N. Z.), Sydney and Melbourne (Australia), returning to Honolulu on Sept. 10. The fleet will be by far the must powerful U. S. Armada which has ever plowed the waters surrounding the sixth Continent, considerably outweighing the fleet which Robley D. ("Fighting Bob") Evans took around the world in Roosevelt's time...
Instead of crossing the Sound at Greenwich or Rye, the squadron pro ceeded into Westchester, was met by many more welcoming planes. Man hattanites rushed into the streets as a veritable air armada swarmed over Greater New York, followed Fifth Avenue and Broadway to the Battery. The homecomers were distinguished in a compact trio at the center of the swarm...
Taditionally England has feared too powerful a neighbor on the continent. The Armada, Blenheim, Waterloo, and the Battles on the Marne illustrate that better than any words or any theories. And so England, is perforce opposed to a Rhineland State, assumedly under the protection of France and joining in the dominating group of Europe the Little Entente, Poland and Belgium with France at the head. In the future it is conceivable that an alliance between Russia and Germany might be the greatest source of anxiety to English statesmen. But just at present it is France and her lesser associates, France...
Leaving Hampton Roads. Va., at dawn, 16 large Martin bombers flew in war formation to Bangor, Me., covering the distance of 800 miles in eight and a half hours. At Mitchel Field, L. I., the armada was reinforced by a squadron of fast De Havilands and single-seater fighters. Fully armed and equipped, the Martin bombers each carried from three to five men, camp equipment from cots to typewriters, enough food to last four days. Sometimes the commander, Major John N. Reynolds, took his fleet in single file, sometimes in V formation so close together that the wing tips seemed...