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With a notable lack of fuss, the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. last week launched Hull No. 439. To the U.S. Navy, Hull No. 439 was the aircraft carrier Midway, biggest warship in the world...
Newport News did build good ships. Its first, the tug Alvah H. Clark, still chuffs up & down the James River, helped shepherd the Midway (see cut) from the dry dock in which it was built to the outfitting pier downstream. But the yard could not show a profit until Ferguson joined the company, after Huntington died and the yard had passed to his heirs...
...prisoner's dock stumbled the defendant. He poured out garrulous excuses: "The Germans were blackguards. I hated them. I want to fight them now. I ask permission to continue in the war to the end-if God permits-with weapons in my hands, at the most dangerous and exposed position at the front that is possible, in the most humble grade, even as a plain sailor...
...approaches to the dock area, the Japs really showed what they could do. Their minefields were reported as dense as any the Germans laid in North Africa. Any position with heavy stone walls was turned into a strong point. Churches suited the Japs perfectly. One churchyard fortress had to be burned out with artillery, mortar fire and flamethrowers. The centuries-old walled city, the Intramuros, was a natural fortress. Colonel Lawrence K. ("Red") White, of the 148th, saw no hope of saving most of Manila's famous buildings. Where the Japs had artillery, he would use artillery, refusing...
...badge. "I do not fear facing a firing squad," he cried. "If I had to do it again, I would." He retracted nothing, not even his 1941 words-"De Gaulle is a traitor who commands the scum of the world." He thumped the ledge of the prisoners' dock, proclaimed himself a "patriot," read a seven-hour political harangue against every act of the Third Republic. The court listened wearily...