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Show i Admiral ftfitscher Announces Maneuvers . - : . - iV - ... V - '4 i - f ' t - ' ' .491 ' 3 i a I' i ' ' t ' ' i - si'- f rW' f v " " i t - : . " VV3 Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, USN, Commander of the new Eighth Fleet, announces extensive maneuvers in the Western Atlantic and Caribbean areas, April 19, to May 27, at a news conference at the Navy Department Jn Washington, D. C. A total of 29 ships, including the USS Missouri and the new super-carriers, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Midway, will take part in the maneuvers, described as the most extensive to be held in the Atlantic since 1939. As stories of local men taking part in these maneuvers are received re-ceived from the Fleet by the Fleet Home Town News Center in Chicago, they will be edited end distributed to home town newspapers. |