A Carrier off the
Coast of Japan

A World War Two article dispatched from on board an anonymous American aircraft carrier cruising 100 miles off the coast of Imperial Japan:

“The last flight was coming home. The planes circled through the thick mist toward the stern of the Essex-class carrier. One by one they hit the deck: Hellcats, Corsairs and EBMs, with names like Hydraulic Bess, Miss Fortune, Sweater Girl and Kansas City Kitty…When the air-crewmen came back from their low low-level raids, the thing they talked about most was the lack of Jap opposition.”

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