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...never be sure. Against the crushing sea power being built up against him, he must try to be ready at any point on his long line. A U.S. surface task force impudently rammed that fact home last week by slipping in to bombard the Paramushiro naval base in the Kuril Islands, northernmost of the island chain the Japs consider their home territory...
...Piedmont (the present Italian royal house) sent soldiers to exterminate them. The terrible Piedmont Easter massacre (1655) moved Oliver Cromwell to decree a public fast to show English sympathy for the Waldensians. Cromwell warned the Duke of Savoy that if such a thing happened again the British fleet would bombard Nice. The massacre also brought from John Milton his thunderous sonnet...
...cruiser was part of the first task force to bombard Munda and Vila," he said in an interview soon after his arrival at Harvard. "We also were the first to venture 300 miles north of Guadalcanal...
...Action. The first Japanese naval force included two battleships of the Kongo class, two heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, ten destroyers (no carriers were mentioned). This force slithered into three groups, primed to bombard Henderson Field. This was no repetition of Aug. 8-9, when the U.S. lost three heavy cruisers and the Australians one in a surprise night attack. This time Halsey apparently obtained the surprise. His guns opened at point-blank range; his torpedoes went home. In the resultant confusion two of the Jap groups fired on one another...
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...