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Diving--Won by Sper (A); second, Philip (H); third, O'Callaghan (H). Winner's total...
Highest U.S. award is the Congressional Medal of Honor, which President Roosevelt conferred last week on two heroic officers of the Battle of Guadalcanal: posthumously to his onetime White House aide, Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan, and Rear Admiral Norman Scott. Cited also for the Medal of Honor was Commander Bruce McCandless, the 31-year-old communications officer who took command of the cruiser San Francisco when Admiral Callaghan and the captain were killed. Said the President to Lieut, (j.g.) Daniel J. Callaghan Jr.: "And so, Jud, I give you the finest thing that has ever been given to your...
...Admiral Callaghan struck as his commander would have wanted. It was almost a Nelsonian stroke. At first he brought his battle line to bear on the forward ships of the oncoming Japanese lines. He engaged a Jap cruiser with his main batteries and a destroyer with his secondary batteries, and sank both. The rest of his line swung its guns on to the Jap formation behind...
...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...
...Francisco, in running the gantlet, had crippled the Jap battleship, but a 14-in. salvo found the cruiser's bridge and killed Admiral Callaghan and Captain Cassin Young (who when blown into the water off the Arizona at Pearl Harbor swam back to his ship and resumed the fight). It knocked out Lieut. Commander Bruce McCandless, 31, third in command on the bridge at the time. When McCandless came to, he saw that he was "Sopus"—Navy for senior officer present. It was up to him to get the ship out. He got to his feet, took command...