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...second night U.S. troops from the northeast were within four miles of Casablanca-although they had probably met the stiffest resistance they had yet found on land. But the most spectacular attacks were upon the port's great, artificial anchorage and upon the Vichy warships there: the battleship Jean Bart, uncompleted and now a stationary fortress with its 15-in. guns; several cruisers, destroyers, gunboats. Bombers, repeatedly attacking the Jean Bart, set her aflame...
Admiral Halsey's flyers damaged two Jap aircraft carriers of the 17,000-ton Zuikaku class-one of them with four to six heavy bomb hits. They hit a battleship of the 29,330-ton Kongo class with two heavy bombs, another battleship with one; scored torpedo and bomb hits on three heavy cruisers. The Jap plane loss was heavier than in the Coral Sea battle, about half as heavy as Midway: "over 100" destroyed, 50 more probably shot down...
...Japanese, who had learned a bitter lesson at Midway, started tactics of infiltration by sea. Only once, on Aug. 24-25, the Japanese seemed to have fallen into the trap. U.S. forces located a Japanese task force, possibly sank the small carrier Ryuzyo, hit several cruisers and a battleship, possibly hit another carrier, but not without losses...
Daily, General MacArthur's heavy bombers hit Jap reinforcement bases to the north. U.S. reinforcements arrived and unloaded just before the Jap returned with a battleship-supported surface force, proceeded to bombard Henderson Field at will...
Closer & Closer. Early in the morning of Oct. 15 the Jap swept past little Savo Island, was able to make daylight landings for the first time on the northwest tip of Guadalcanal, only 15 miles from the Marines' toehold. He paid heavily. Haggard American flyers hit a battleship, fired three transports that still burned late that afternoon. But the Jap still came. He lost 17 more planes in one attack on Henderson Field. At week's end the Jap landed artillery and brought it close enough to shell U.S. positions, now under attack from land...