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Actually all the Japs attempted was to intercept a convoy and to evacuate their own officers and technicians from Guadalcanal. The fighting consisted entirely of air attacks on surface vessels rather than warship slugging it out against warship. The heavy cruiser Chicago was damaged January 29 and sunk in a second attack the next day. An unnamed destroyer was sunk by dive bombers February 1. The Japs lost two destroyers sunk; four destroyers probably destroyed; six other destroyers, one corvette and two cargo ships damaged...
...Navy people were on hand. In a country where two weeks without rain is considered a drought, civilian employes of two U.S. construction companies sloshed through ankle-deep mud, grading, putting up Quonset huts, getting machinery under some kind of cover. Every nut, bolt and machine had come by convoy from the U.S. and so-25 days after the commissioning-did about 300 Navy technicians...
...that the blitz is past, the plot has turned to the work of decontamination quads, convoy defense, firewatching, visits to the symphony and variety shows, etc. Worldwide listeners still send their favorite characters packets of tea and sugar, bundles of butter and chocolate. Like U.S. soap operas, however, this one has roused some dissenters. One weary British Tommy wrote of the Robinsons, in their own dialect, from the African desert. Said he: "They are proper stupid...
...days later, lurking in the same waters, the Wahoo sighted a fat Jap convoy. First a freighter was sunk, next a troop-jammed transport, then a tanker; finally, with the Wahoo's last torpedo, a second freighter. The sweep was clean. Later the Wahoo, its supply of torpedoes gone, had to let another convoy pass unharmed. Said Lieut. Commander Dudley W. Morton, skipper of the broom-flaunting Wahoo: ''When you have no torpedoes you sure feel naked...
...convoy of transports, apparently going to Guadalcanal and covered by a naval task force, had been attacked twice. The first attack was 60 miles due south of Guadalcanal, off Rennell Island. The Japs claimed two battleships, three cruisers...