Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battle Declined. On the sea the Jap had suffered the same kind of steady attrition. Not since the last great Nov. 13-15 naval battle of Guadalcanal, when he lost a battleship, nine cruisers, six destroyers, twelve transports and had two battleships, a cruiser and six destroyers damaged, has the Jap dared get in a real slugfest with U.S. naval units. But since mid-June, in various fruitless sallies, he has lost six to seven cruisers, at least eleven destroyers, one seaplane tender, one transport, four to six cargo ships. Admitted U.S. losses for that same period were the cruiser...
...cone of Kolombangara. That the Japs were determined to cling to Vila was evident when they once more took the impossible chance and sent down four ships with reinforcements. Intercepting the convoy at mid night in the Vella Gulf, the U.S. Navy, already operating north of Kolombangara, sank a cruiser, two destroyers and probably the remaining destroyer...
...point in the bombardment a cruiser was ordered to change position. It refused. Its explanation may mark a new chapter in naval history: "I've got 20 enemy tanks under fire...
Down the launching ways at the big Bethlehem Fore River shipyard at Quincy, Mass, slid the destroyer escort Harmon, first U.S. warship named for a Negro. Navy Secretary Frank Knox had assigned the name in honor of Roy Harmon, Navy messman, who gave his life aboard the cruiser San Francisco in the Battle of Guadalcanal last November...
...every effect they might see on a war patrol: dawn, eastern horizon (the thin line of light which justifies the phrase "crack of dawn"); dawn, western horizon (an upper glow, quite different); fire at sea (a glow unmistakable once seen); thunder showers far off; gunfire ("Here's a cruiser coming at you," explained the CPO instructor, and the class watched the tiny, stabbing flashes grow brighter...