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NEW YORK, October 27. New York celebrated Navy Day with a majestic pageant of the air and sea power which helped to win victory. Forty-seven warships, including the Missouri, the super-carrier Midway, and the battle-tried carrier Enterprise, studded the Hudson River for seven miles. .
Twelve hundred fighters and bombers roared overhead as President Truman reviewed the Fleet from 'the destroyer Renshaw to the accompaniment of a 21-gun salute from each warship. Millions viewed the -warlike panorama from Riverside Drive, city skyscrapers, and the New Jersey Palisades.
All the 'British vessels dressed ship,
Earlier, Mr. Truman commissioned the aircraft-carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt and drove through New York amid showers of ticker-tape, and then spoke in Central Park before an immense crowd.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 7
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