This Is a War of Fireand It Takes Trained Fire Fighters to Win It I By Robert J Lewis Not long ago a towering geyser of smoke and flame shot up a thousand feet Into the Pacific sky Two Jap kamikaze planes loaded with 1100 pounds of bombs had plunged into a big aircraft carrier off Okinawa A nightmarish Inferno engulfed the full length of the flight deck and boiled furiously inside the ship Onlookers from a neighboring vessel feared the carrier never could survive Yet eight hours later the holocaust was under control and the ship already on her way back to the United States In recent weeks newspapers radio and newsreels have been bursting with the agony of ships ablaze Youve seen the faces of those mentheir world trans formed in the space of a few seconds into a raging furnace Youve seen those shipsthe Franklin Bunker Hill Saratoga and many otherswrithing beneath the churning whitehot flames as their hulls were twisted and seared amid the detonating thundei of exploding shells rockets and heavy bombs Many of those ships have come homecharred and ghastly but still afloat Have you wondered by what magic they were saved Have you