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...Play. A warm, cloudless Saturday found the President in sparkling fettle for the weekend's fun. In a light grey suit and soft tan hat he was off from the White House at 8:40 a.m., behind a motorcycle escort. His car companions: Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle, former presidential press secretary Steve Early (now of Pullman Co.), Reconversion Boss John W. Snyder, gabby Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, the President's aide...
...active and ready status would be eleven battleships, 15 carriers, 21 escort carriers, 49 heavy and light cruisers, 176 destroyers, 40 destroyer escorts, 90 submarines. As for air, Forrestal proposed "about 8,000" ready-to-use aircraft, plus 4,000 in reserve...
...Sara's hangar deck, the pilots' ready rooms and even the admiral's flag office had been turned into quarters for over 2,000 sailors, who tossed their leis in the water as the big carrier weighed anchor from Pearl Harbor. Soon 35 smaller escort carriers would be similarly transformed into Navy transports...
...ships larger than destroyers were sunk, but twelve cans went to the bottom, 67 others were damaged. Ten battleships, eight big carriers, two light carriers and three escort carriers were hit. And the casualties in men-4,907 killed and missing, 4,824 wounded-were about one-seventh of the Navy's total for the entire...
Heading northwest across the browns and greens of the pampas toward Cordoba one day last week, Argentina's Vice President and Strong Man Juan Domingo Perón looked out from his airplane seat at fleecy clouds and the three-plane fighter escort close at hand. Suddenly one of the fighters veered away from a fog bank, shot toward PerAlemánn's DC-2. The fighter whipped overhead, barely missed crashing squarely into the transport's fuselage. There was a sharp bump and it thundered into a spin. One of the transport's propellers...