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...Newport News, Rear Admiral Elliott Buckmaster, commander of the carrier Yorktown when she was sunk after Midway, June 7, was midstream in a speech celebrating the launching of a new carrier of the same name. Then something extraordinary happened. Imperceptibly the great bow towering above the speaker's stand began to move. Admiral Buckmaster stopped. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, sponsor of both Yorktowns, rushed to the platform edge, swung her bottle of champagne just as the giant craft slid down the ways five minutes ahead of schedule...
Carrierman to the core, Commander Collett probed deeper, came up with a doctrine in flat opposition to the conviction of most high-ranking naval officers that there is still substantial need for the battleship. Of Midway, one of the decisive battles of world history, he wrote...
From the battle of Midway, Commander Collett drew these conclusions...
...which CINCPAC referred was an air raid on Wake. It was perhaps the best evidence yet of interservice cooperation. Enough four-motored bombers (censors released a picture showing one of the crews in front of a Liberator) took part in the night flight from "an advanced airfield" (probably Midway) and back to carry seventy-six 1,000-lb. bombs. No Jap anti-aircraft was met until well after the first bombs had waked the Japs...
When the U.S. Navy was making ready to take the offensive in the Pacific I didn't say, "Where is the U.S. Navy? At the bottom of the ocean!" Later, when the U.S. Navy kicked the fangs out of the Japs in the Coral Sea, at Midway and at the Solomons, I didn't say, "It was a cinch that as soon as we got going we'd clean...