Word: communique
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Said a Navy communiqué: another carrier had been sunk Oct. 26. (The Navy Department had either not known or had not told Elmer Davis...
These actions have not been announced in any previous communiqu...
...Pacific war the U.S. submarine man has had phenomenal luck, has lived in relative safety, despite the fact that he must risk death at the hands of friend or foe. Up to last week only three U.S. subs were "overdue and presumed lost," as the Navy communiqués intone their fate. One more was demolished by its own crew to prevent its capture in the Philippines; another sank in a collision off Panama. But German submarines in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic have had less luck, a higher rate of loss.* In World War I Germany lost...
...casually breaking the news in a front-page interview with a home-town survivor of the lost carrier. The sailor was abruptly whisked away by Naval authorities. Elderly Pilot Editor Samuel E. Boys got a blistering Navy rebuke. Possibly Sam Boys's slip expedited Navy's official communiqué admitting the loss of the Wasp. But the hopeful impression got around that Navy's relatively fresh report about the Wasp (coming only 41 days after its loss) marked a new deal in Navy news. Bolstering that impression was the Navy's prompter announcement, within a week...
...week's fighting, as summarized by Navy communiqués, was practically continuous. First off some Marine planes damaged two cruisers while others bombed anti-aircraft installations and strafed seaplanes at the enemy's Rekata Bay, 115 miles north of Guadalcanal. The Jap came back at Henderson Field with 35 bombers and 30 fighters. Twelve were shot down at a cost of only two U.S. fighters. The Marines managed to enlarge their three-by-six-mile territory on 25-by-80-mile Guadalcanal. At night the Jap landed more reinforcements on either side of the Marines' toehold...