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...round one, air power had proved it could sink battleships and did so at Pearl Harbor and in the battle for Malaya, when the Prince of Wales and Repulse went down. Surface power's seconds cried "Foul!" but when the second round opened, the battleship was in No. 2 position in the fleet line. The carrier is now the capital ship of the sea (as the U.S. Navy tacitly acknowledged by concentrating its attacks on the Japanese carriers rather than battleships at Midway...
Proof. The proof switched to the Navy: to Taranto, where British pilots in antique planes proved that the aircraft could sink men-of-war; to the battle against the Bismarck, where they proved that the aerial torpedo could cripple the finest best-protected battleship afloat...
...pleaded that they had been surprised. He smeared the Prince of Wales and Repulse when every gun in their anti-aircraft batteries was blazing. By then there were few to argue with Al Williams when he wrote: "What has any battleship done to date, in this war, but sink...
Lanoue claims that sailors could jump feet first through the flames, swim as long as they could under water (swimming for his life, a man might make 100 yards without air), then spring above the flames to breathe, taking a breast stroke to push flames away, and sink and swim again. Thus a man could navigate up to 200 yards of burning oil. Only time Freddie has been singed was when he had on a shirt and an air bubble inside it kept him too long above the surface...
...last week nobody on the Rockefeller side of the fence had any fight left anyway. From now on R.K.O. will sink or swim at Floyd Odium's orders...