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...white.") And when our Marines landed on Bougainville itself November 1, Chickering was once again on the job-watched from the bridge of his transport as our men swarmed ashore ("They made you proud to be an American")-was permitted to join them right after they had won their beachhead...
Just after the first landings on Bougainville, a task force apparently consisting of four cruisers and eight destroyers swept down toward the beachhead. About 40 miles from the landing point, the Japs met a roughly equal U.S. force. The Japanese kept the U.S. force at arm's length by clever use of flares and torpedoes. But the fire control and aiming devices of the U.S. ships were superior. At extreme range, they were able to sink one cruiser and two destroyers for sure (admitted by Japan) and probably two more destroyers (claimed by the U.S.). Announced U.S. loss...
...slamming shells at the San Francisco, which had tangled with a Jap battleship and taken the salvo which killed Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan and her skipper, Medal-of-Honorman Cassin Young. The Helena sank the cruiser and a destroyer, shot up three other Jap ships. The U.S. beachhead in the Solomons was finally secure...
...been to gain "command of the seas" but to transport troops and protect the Imperial Army's supply lines. Mr. Kiralfy suggests that this goes back to Japan's origins, the Japs being a nation of "island-hoppers" who surged up from the south and established "beachheads" on what is now called Japan. In 1592, Hideyoshi, founder of the navy, used his ships to land troops in Korea, to victual their beachheads. In 1904-05, Togo aimed to reinforce the Jap beachhead in Manchuria; his brilliant destruction of the Russian fleet was incidental to the main strategy. Similarly...
...Beachhead Consolidated. At 5 p.m. he was three blocks away in the Los Angeles Republican headquarters in the Spring Arcade Building. It took him ten minutes to get through the milling throng that jammed the corridor before the entrance. Once inside, he bounded onto a desk and spoke: "When I was here the last time in 1941, I had come to speak about something close to my heart. I wanted to convince you that we must give aid to England in our common fight against Hitler. At that time many of my own party members carried placards outside...