Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walker went on to tell how General MacArthur got his first view of the Philippines-"a gun-rocked coast backed by rolling hills. He saw it from a cruiser standing in to shore an hour after the landings, sitting placidly on the flag bridge puffing his pipe...
...Since Sept. 6 when I left Mitscher's flagship, I have watched the Palau and Philippine operations from five big carriers, five destroyers, one cruiser, one tanker. During the strike at Manila Bay I was on the bridge. Suddenly the squawk-box warned: 'Four Jap planes closing in,' and our ships moved into tight anti-aircraft formation. Through our ear-cotton the flash of guns sounded like a mad symphony on kettle drums. A Jap fighter made two strafing passes at our stern and got away with it, but a minute later I watched him dog-fighting...
...damaged 91 others. But Miller's most brilliant record is his own. He himself definitely sank 20 of those ships, totaling 35,500 tons, among them a destroyer and a 10,000-ton tanker; probably sank or damaged 46 totaling 28,350 tons, among them a light cruiser, a destroyer, two destroyer escorts. (Not included in that record: barges, sail boats, sampans. Miller sank so many that he was too embarrassed to report them...
...adding a total of 57,600 planes. In a report of his own, Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, chief of naval air operations, noted that the Navy had 34,071 planes on hand June 30*; that among some 100 carriers, 14 are first-line Essex class, nine are Independence (converted cruiser) class...
General George C. Kenney's bombers sank five freighters, left two more burning along with a cruiser. Here & there they picked off singletons. In the South China Sea, one of Major General Claire L. Chennault's Liberators sank a light cruiser. A week earlier the same plane had sunk three merchant ships, total 27,000 tons; before that the 18,765-ton Italian liner Conte Verde, which had just been refloated by the Japs at Shanghai...