MODERN BATTLESHIP
U.S. ADMIRAL'S APPRAISAL
WASHINGTON, July 9. "The battleship has resumed its place as the champion of the seas," says Rear-Admiral Blandy, chief of the navy's ordnance bureau, in the semiofficial magazine "Army Ordnance." "Not only has the battleship come back from the limbo to which many observers consigned it following Pearl Harbour and the loss of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, but it has actually reached the point where the air-craft-carrier relies on it for defence against planes, because of the terrific volume of anti-aircraft fire with which a battleship fills the air."
Admiral Blandy adds that today's battleship can keep up with carriers, cruisers, and destroyers, can hit harder and longer than a carrier, and is much harder to sink.
President Roosevelt has approved the name of Shangri-La for an aircraft-car-rier which is being built for the express purpose of bombing Tokio. The carrier will be financed by sales of war, savings stamps during July. Details of the vessel's construction date and launching are withheld. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 9, 10 July 1943, Page 5
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170MODERN BATTLESHIP Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 9, 10 July 1943, Page 5
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