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...incredible accuracy of U.S. naval guns at Casablanca, which at 26 miles smashed the hull of the French battleship Jean Bart in two salvos, was a triumph for the electron tube. Declared Rear Admiral Stanford C. Hooper last week: "Radio directed and reported the destruction." Even at the very hour that war began the electron tube was the first to serve the nation. On Dec. 7, 1941 the electron tube caught the mutter of Japanese aircraft when they were 132 miles away from Pearl Harbor...
Stealthily through a Solomons channel a Jap Kongo Class battleship slipped near dusk on Oct. 25. A squad of Navy SBDs dive-bombed it, streaked back to Guadalcanal. A half-hour later six Army Flying Fortresses swung over the channel. From a tight, high-level formation they straddle-bombed the ship, scored two square hits. The battleship turned 45 degrees, headed north. Suddenly a magazine let loose. Fire leaped from bow to stern. The ship stopped dead. For hours the calm South Pacific sky and sea were lighted by flames until at midnight the battleship sank...
...Also claimed: another carrier damaged, one cruiser badly damaged, one battleship...
...role of the battleship as a weapon with which to win battles at sea a la Jutland has practically vanished...
...losses in the same battles: two carriers badly damaged (believed sunk by flyers who attacked them); one battleship, three heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, eleven destroyers sunk; two battleships, one cruiser, six destroyers damaged; several transports and cargo ships sunk and damaged...