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After four months' battle drill in the Caribbean, the bulk of the U. S. fleet- 67 men-o'-war-last week assembled at the entrance to New York harbor. At dawn a great line of sea power, ten miles long, began to thread its way up the bay into the Hudson River. The procession was led by the California, the Navy's No. 1 capital ship carrying Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton, commander-in-chief of the Battle Fleet, followed by the West Virginia, Maryland, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico. Next came the cruisers: Detroit, Marblehead, Raleigh, Richmond...
...Yorkers were made conscious of the fleet's arrival more by what came over in the air than by what lay in the water or, later, walked in the streets. Simultaneously with the battleships an enormous naval air fleet visited New York City. From the carriers Lexington, Saratoga and Langley lying miles away in Hampton Roads, via Washington where President Hoover stood at attention as they passed, 134 planes flew to a rendezvous at Staten Island, then swept up the bay over towered Manhattan. They flew in tight, three-plane V-formations which in turn formed larger...
...Navy for a major maneuver, had covered the city, wheeled away to land at Valley Stream, L. I. Next day the great squadron traveled to Boston, circled that city and its suburbs in theoretical destruction, returned to its Long Island rendezvous. Never before had so large a fleet of planes flown so far or so well together...
After the air fleet sped away south to its distant base ships, the metropolitan press poured out stories of how the attack, if real, would have devastated New York, wiped out the Wall Street area, left thousands dead and dying. High naval officials, however, discounted such results from such an air raid. In a real attack upon New York, they said, the enemy would not seek to take life primarily but would concentrate its bombs upon the power houses and gas tanks that line the city's shores, upon the railroad bridges, tunnel heads, radio stations. The greatest effect...
...Author. Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard was 24 when he went with Scott, did not write this book till 1922 because the War interfered. (This is the first U. S. edition.) During the War he was "in Flanders looking after a fleet of armored cars. A war is like the Antarctic in one respect. There is no getting out of it with honor as long as you can put one foot before the other." A believer in scientific exploration, Author Cherry-Garrard deprecates purely spectacular expeditions, thinks Amundsen's discovery of the South Pole was mostly that. Says...