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...battles of the Coral Sea had been fought, the Lexington had been lost and Midway had been won at the cost of the York town when he told the war class of Annapolis midshipmen in June: "War is force-force to the utmost-force to make the enemy yield to our own will-to yield because their own will to fight is broken. War is men against men-mechanized war is still men against...
King on Offensive: Air assaults on the Japs at Tulagi and the Coral Sea battle of planes v. ships in May were actually the preludes to the Solomons campaign. But the Navy's air victory (with some Army help) at Midway was the real turning point: "Things began to break for us at Midway. We began to get the edge there. . . . After the Midway action we told ourselves: 'Now is the time to hit the Jap in the southwest Pacific...
...Zuikaku class-one of them with four to six heavy bomb hits. They hit a battleship of the 29,330-ton Kongo class with two heavy bombs, another battleship with one; scored torpedo and bomb hits on three heavy cruisers. The Jap plane loss was heavier than in the Coral Sea battle, about half as heavy as Midway: "over 100" destroyed, 50 more probably shot down...
...news from the Solomons (see p. 27), including the now obvious fact that the Japs had more warships around Guadalcanal than the U.S. had, hammered the lesson home. It was easier, now, to see that reports of Japanese carrier losses in the Coral Sea and at Midway may have been "accurate in themselves, but that the Japs' total carrier strength had been underestimated. Even the statement by Expert Hanson W. Baldwin (see p. 67) that the Haruna probably had not been sunk was no longer much of a jolt. Laymen could turn a clearer eye upon tabulations indicating that...
Carriers. The loss of four U.S. carriers in the Coral Sea, at Midway and the Solomons reduced the total known carrier force of the Navy to three, plus some converted merchantmen which are of limited combat value. Atlantic requirements and unreported, but always possible damage to remaining carriers may at any time reduce the U.S. Pacific strength to two, one-or zero. Even allowing for reported damage to Jap carriers last week (see p. 27), Japan may have a two-or three-to-one margin-although most of her carriers are somewhat smaller...