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...battleship finally came into its own. After Pearl Harbor many misinformed people thought they knew the answer when ex-Navy Flyer Al Williams asked: "What has any battleship done to date, in this war, but sink?" Midway and Alexander De Seversky between them reinforced this feeling, by overstressing the great importance of aircraft (particularly land-based planes) over the sea, and fostering the assumption that in all naval situations airplanes would be as dominant as they were at Midway...
From their bases in Australia and Hawaii, from secret spots in the vast expanse of the Pacific, U.S. submarines range up to Hong Kong. The first sub sinking admitted by Japan (last January) was only 75 miles southeast of Yokohama. Some U.S. subs have penetrated Tokyo Bay to gather information on enemy fleet dispositions and to sink Jap merchantmen as they sailed, loaded, out of the harbor. Last month a French flyer who stole a 14-year-old biplane and escaped to Chungking from Indo-China reported that U.S. subs had made it so hot in that area that...
...much for the old heels. Now for the young ones, and there are plenty of them. There's the girl who plays Sonia Henie's sister. She's only mildly disgusting, since all she screams for is for Sister Sonia to marry someone so she can sink her hooks into a high-voiced young Icelander who looks like something the WAACS would probably be glad to have. Of course, both of them gallop over the worn visage of poor Holloway...
Word by word, so that each might sink in, Chan Gurney read the Chief of Staff's blunt memo...
...Admiral Hart is against a separated air force. He points to the poor British record of employing planes with ships, cries: "The only thing that would have saved Singapore would have been the success of Admiral Sir Tom Phillips' attempt to place his heavy ships where they could sink the Japanese transports at sea. We have never heard why the R.A.F. fighters, which were half an hour away, gave Admiral Phillips no help whatever" (when H.M.S. Prince of Wales and H.M.S. Repulse were sunk...