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...week began, the Lafayette, as important to the war as any battleship, turned over at her pier. The story of the carelessness which lost her was even sadder...
BATAVIA, N.E.I.--Notherlands Indies fliers said today that they sank what apparently was a Japanese battleship with a direct bomb hit amidship in the first day of the now famous battle of Macassar Strait...
...true, this would be the second Japanese battleship sunk by air bombs...
...fateful Sunday morning, the Chaplain of a battleship in Pearl Harbor was busy on the afterdeck with a couple of assistants, running up the bunting and adjusting the rig in preparation for divine service. Their polite murmurs were suddenly interrupted by the roar of the Jap. The Chaplain dropped his bunting, ran to an anti-aircraft gun and began preaching lead to the Japanese...
Heavy Axis bombings had for seven weeks been used in an attempt to make the sea lanes safe for reinforcements for Rommel. Last week the British spotted and went out with bombers and torpedo planes to meet a big Axis convoy led by a battleship, four cruisers, 15 destroyers. They claimed the probable sinking of a 20,000-ton liner, damage to one of three supply ships...