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...This is the Navy's one dive-bomber in wide service up to now. Outdated by later design as of Pearl Harbor, it was still all the Navy had, was still better than anything the enemy could show. Result: a spectacular record of destruction of enemy craft at Midway, the Coral Sea and in all the actions in the South Pacific...
...Midway between then & now were White Rock's angelic nymph, Kellogg's Corn Flakes' calico-clad "sweetheart of the corn" and Baker Chocolate's "La Belle Chocolatiere." .Today's climax is typified by Aircooled Motors Corp.'s (Franklin engines) current advertising illustration of a lithe and leggy air-cooled lovely clad in little or nothing and saying bithely into a phone: "Pick me up at eight . . . and we'll fly to the club...
...extent of that retreat became apparent this week: the Germans had given up their best positions for the defense of Naples. Fifth Army troops turned westward from Salerno, occupied the lower coast and the heights of the Sorrento peninsula overlooking the port and its bay. Twelve miles off, midway between the troops and Naples, Vesuvius loomed. Other troops already held Capri, the storied island just off the peninsula, the islands of Ischia and Procida in the Bay of Naples, Ponza and Ventotene northwest...
...Following Pearl Harbor, "greatest urgency" was for the new battleships of the Iowa and North Carolina classes. The 45,000-ton New Jersey was completed in 26% less time than the 35,000-ton Washington. After Coral Sea and Midway, emphasis shifted to carriers, then to landing craft and destroyer escorts...
...ability to replace pilots was steadily slipping. Veteran flyers in the Pacific say that they have been fighting the "second team" ever since the Battle of Midway in June 1942, when the Jap, losing four carriers, lost his first-string pilots...