Word: cruiser
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Sunda Strait. "On Feb. 28 [1942] the [British cruiser] Exeter, the [U.S. destroyer] Pope and [British destroyer] Encounter headed for Sunda Strait and were never heard from again. On March 1 the [U.S. cruiser] Houston and [Australian cruiser] Perth and [Dutch destroyer] Evertsen headed in the same direction and except for very meager reports of an engagement in the Sunda Strait, they have not been heard from since...
Savo Island. The Battle of Savo Island, Aug. 8, had left the newly landed Marines on Guadalcanal in a precarious position. "Generally speaking, we were surprised because we lacked experience," so the Japs sank four cruisers, the Vincennes, Astoria, Quincy and Canberra (Australian), damaged the cruiser Chicago and the destroyers Ralph Talbot and Patterson...
...Guadalcanal on Aug. 7 were still hanging on by the skin of their teeth. The carrier Hornet was sunk, and the recently repaired Enterprise was badly damaged. The destroyer Porter was sunk. The brand-new battleship South Dakota was damaged (and her famed Captain Thomas L. Gatch wounded). The cruiser San Juan suffered "considerable" damage. "We sank no enemy vessels . . . but there were partial compensations. Two enemy carriers had been put out of action and four Japanese air groups had been cut to pieces...
General MacArthur watched the landings from a light cruiser, then went ashore in a landing boat. The Jap's fate was certain, he said, but "his invested garrisons can be expected to strike desperately to free themselves and time and combat will be required to accomplish their annihilation...
...Valiant. Around South Pacific bars, MacDonald's O'Bannon became a legend. In June 1943, Admiral Halsey began the drive to knock the Japs out of the rest of the Solomons. The O'Bannon was in the thick of that campaign. She was with the outnumbered cruiser task force which plowed into the dark hole of Kula Gulf to intercept and destroy nine to eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers. That was the night the great cruiser Helena was lost (TIME...