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Admiral Callaghan swung his task force right into the main Jap forces. Without hesitation, he drove his ship, whose biggest guns were 8-in., to within 2,000 yards of a Jap battleship, which carried 14-in. guns. He led his force right between two Japanese groups, so that when he pulled out the Japs fired on each other. ("I hope," said Admiral Nimitz, telling about this later, "that the Jap gunnery was up to the usual excellent standard which they have always shown against...
...Results. Jap losses: one battleship (the first claimed by the Navy), three heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, five destroyers, twelve transports. U.S. losses: two light cruisers, six destroyers. Another Jap battleship and six destroyers were damaged. (The Navy does not ordinarily announce damage to its own ships...
...Casablanca, U.S. warships commanded by Admiral Henry K. Hewitt knocked out a bitterly resisting French cruiser-destroyer force while Navy flyers bombed the 35,000-ton battleship Jean Bart into a blazing hulk. The U.S. fleet moved inshore and soon was heaving shell after shell into the Moroccan coast...
WASHINGTON--The smashing American naval victory in the Solomons last week may have been even greater than originally reported, lit was revealed tonight on the basis of a communique showing that five Jap warships--including a battleship or heavy cruiser--were sunk the night of Nov. 14-15 in a savage slugfest of dreadnaughts and other heavy units...
Vichy's Navy was also an unknown quantity. Unhappily for Vichy, most of its Navy was at: 1) Dakar, 1,500 miles southwest of Casablanca; 2) Toulon, France's base 400 miles north of Algiers. The battleship Richelieu, three light cruisers, several destroyers and some submarines at Dakar did not figure in the initial defense. At Toulon were the battleships Strasbourg, Dunkerque (repaired after its shelling by the British in 1940) and Provence (also damaged but repaired), probably seven cruisers, 25 destroyers, 27 submarines and one seaplane carrier (the Commandant Teste). Axis reports said Toulon naval units...