Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nine Jap destroyers and light cruisers were sunk, possibly two more. U.S. losses: one ship-the valiant cruiser Helena, which, when sunk, had been firing for six minutes and was on her third and fourth victims. Early this week, another naval force was engaged in the Kula Gulf. In a night battle lasting into the next day, one Jap cruiser, three destroyers were sunk, two more destroyers hit so badly that they probably went down...
...also threw a beam, and the admiral kept asking: "Who is it? Who is it? Acknowledge. Acknowledge." Finally came the destroyer's voice: "I am sorry to report it is Five Zero." That was the number of one of the fightingest ships in the Pacific: the cruiser Helena...
...morning of April 18 was bitterly cold and rough. Off to the left, a cruiser let go a broadside. "A low-slung ship began to give off an ugly plume of black smoke." U.S. gunnery had gotten a small Japanese ship within three minutes. But three minutes is time enough to flash a warning. It would no longer be a night attack at 400 miles, but a daylight raid at 800. Lawson heard the shout: "God damn! Let's go!" They went...
...mine rifleman, Lou developed an accuracy famed in an outfit noted for its shooting, once he took up mortars. On Guadal he boasted he could lob a shell down a chimney, and did. When a Jap cruiser closed in to shore, Lou lobbed a few shells at it (like firing bee-bees at a bomber), explained, "I wanted to check my azimuth and it's just right." Many a mortar crew in the Solomons was Diamond-polished...
...five days she lay under water, sur facing cautiously, at night. On the after noon of June 10 the Clyde's commander sighted a target that made the strain worth enduring: a German pocket battle ship and a cruiser. She lost them. Early the next morning she sighted another huge enemy ship - beyond her reach. For nine days more the Clyde searched and found empty sea. She had now been at sea for three weeks. The 50 men of her crew were grim, bitter, tense. They could not smoke, waited in fixed dullness when the Clyde was submerged, chewed...