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...battleship (a second damaged and perhaps sunk), one cruiser, one destroyer, perhaps 75 planes...
...date Navy casualty figures dwarfed previous unofficial estimates of 1,500 dead, 1,500 wounded: officers (including Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd, commanding a battleship division of the Pacific Fleet), 91 dead, 20 wounded, enlisted men, 2,638 dead, 636 wounded. Army losses, based on "practically complete reports": 168 killed in action; 223 wounded; 26 missing. A Japanese fifth column, "the most effective actually in this war since Norway," knew the sites of all defenses, the comings & goings of the various patrols...
...Prince of Wales), he had fixed in his mind the opposition he would meet. "We are out looking for trouble," he signaled, "and no doubt we shall find it. We hope to surprise the enemy transports tomorrow and we expect to meet the Japanese battleship Kongo." Admiral Phillips said not a word about Japanese airplanes. He went to sea without air protection...
...Sunk one U.S. battleship, capsized another, sunk three destroyers, perhaps one submarine; sunk two British battleships...
...Purdie Kelly Jr. His citation was recorded in a single pregnant sentence of a communiqué issued by General Douglas MacArthur: "General MacArthur announced with great sorrow the death of Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr.. who so distinguished himself by scoring three direct hits on the Japanese capital battleship Haruna, leaving her in flames and in distress...