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Beside the lordly first-line carriers of the Essex class they look like tugboats with a flight deck. They carry only a score or so of aircraft. They are called CVEs, nicknamed "baby flattops" and they are designed for dirty, routine jobs-transporting planes, providing air cover for plodding convoys. But they have become the pets of the Navy Department, which this week gave them a big share of the credit for speeding up the Pacific...
However, this was not the occasion of excitement. The Captain's eyes were riveted on the flight deck from which he had launched 45 strikes in a period of a few months. His eyes glisten when he becomes excited and they were glistening now. And the imperturbable Commander Henry Howard Caldwell, who calmly flew his plane back from Rabaul on Nov. 5, 1943 with a dead photographer and a wounded gunner aboard, a plane with 154 bullet holes and one wheel and half an aileron gone, was behaving like an Annapolis plebe at one of the Navy football games...
...flying bomb could do was done in London last week. It streaked down during the noonday rush on a shop-lined street. Its 2,240 lbs. of TNT blew apart a crowded restaurant, filled the air with knife-edged shards of splintered glass. The blast wrenched off the top deck of a bus, tore apart another bus. Passengers were dazed, their clothing afire...
...received a postcard from "our girl" Helen the other day. She is now on vacation for three weeks--one week of which is now past. During this time there is, and probably will continue to be a noticeable clearance of corridors on the first deck of Baker. (By the way will the cad who stole that picture of Helen out of our room please return same...
When you hear the conductor swinging down the aisle chanting in that peculiar manner reserved for train conductors, Woodsole! Woodsole!," you will know that it is time to change from train coach to cool, windswept steamer deck is certainly a refreshing one, calculated to make you quickly forget about those unloved physics problems or the mad conclusion of Harvard Square...