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...with patriotic names are shown: Russian, Australian and Pacific greens; British rose; Iceland, Gallant, Commando, Salute, Alaska, Independence and Overseas blues; American wine; Valor and Freedom reds; Atlantic sand; Gunpowder, Air, Bomber and Pursuit greys; Hawaiian lime; Canadian violet, Panama aqua, Chinese earth, India copper, Pan-American red and Coral...
Passage of the bill in the House was greeted with hosannas from London, where a nation of sailors is fast becoming a nation of airmen. The sinking of the Repulse and Prince of Wales looked like a terrible loss at first. In the light of the Coral Sea and Midway Island battles, Britons now begin to see them as no great losses after all. For them as well as the U.S., the carrier is king. Hosannas from the U.S. press were even more vociferous...
Meantime the battleship may possibly have an Indian summer. Since apparently at least half of the Jap carrier strength was destroyed in the Coral Sea and near Midway, the big U.S. battlewagons may get a chance to go in and slug the Jap surface fleet. But battleships will have a chance to fight only until the navies of the world get adequate carrier forces-or after an adequate naval defense against aircraft has been devised...
...proof went on. A great naval battle was fought in the Coral Sea, and not a shot was fired by one surface ship against another. Carriers were sunk, and no desperate defense their airmen could make could save them...
...Five weeks after the battle of the Coral Sea the Navy admitted the sinking of the aircraft carrier Lexington. This delay was an excellent example of justifiable military censorship-withholding news that might be of value to the enemy. For a new Japanese attack was expected, and although the Japanese announced the sinking of a carrier of the "Saratoga class," presumably they had not known for sure that the Lexington was done...