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...truth, the greatest battle in the history of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It was fought below the equator, in the Coral Sea off Australia's northeast coast. For five days, smudged with belching smoke screens and roaring with bomb bursts, a U.S. naval force and Army bombers from land bases took turns tearing into a heavy Jap task force, invasion-bound...
Tired, old, the Marblehead throbbed as she gathered speed and the sky spewed Jap bombers. Over & over again they came. On the deck of the Marblehead a bomb smashed home. She heeled, shuddered, spit flames from her shattered deck. Her quartermaster sang out: "Steering gear's gone...
...bomb-blasted Malta last week, beefy, pink-faced Lieut. Gen. Sir William George Shedden ("Old Dob Dob") Dobbie, gave his farewell message to the people. The 63-year-old Governor and Commander in Chief of Malta, who had survived nearly 2,300 Axis air attacks, was going home to England for a rest...
...TIME, April 27)-Old Dob Dob had shown two qualities that made him a blood brother: imperturbability in the face of danger, and simple piety. During the hottest raids on Malta, air-raid wardens would find Sir William beside them, unruffled, pitching in to help move wounded out of bomb-wrecked houses. Nightly he held Bible classes for officers and men, sprinkled his War Office reports with Scriptural quotations...
Replacing Old Dob Dob as Governor, General the Viscount ("Tiger") Gort, 55, onetime Chief of the Imperial General Staff, arrived at Malta in the teeth of a heavier-than-usual air attack.* Sworn in while bombs were dropping, by a chief justice whose hand was bleeding, Tiger Gort fell on his face when a bomb crashed close...