Word: cruiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hart had deployed his Asiatic Fleet as far south as Borneo before the war began. He contends it would have been "footless" to bring his destroyers and cruisers into Luzon waters after control of the air had been lost. Twice-at Balikpapan and Bali -the Asiatic Fleet stalled the Jap drive southward, but (after Hart was relieved) "disaster soon followed and in the end we lost heavily-the Houston [cruiser], Pillsbury, Edsall and Pope [destroyers] were all lost in surface ship action at sea under circumstances about which we know little . . . yes, ships were lost, but it was not footless...
...news oddity. In Newton, Mass., Siamese Cat Champion Chinky died and left 25 lb. of metal cups and badges to the local campaign. A woman in Cohoes, N.Y. donated an iron bench she used to sit on beside her Spanish-American War veteran husband's grave. The old cruiser Olympia, flagship to Admiral Dewey at Manila and bearer in 1921 of the body of the Unknown Soldier, started to have her 5,865 tons reduced to scrap...
...nights later two Japanese destroyers and a light cruiser crept into the bay off Guadalcanal and shelled the shore positions. U.S. destroyers the day before had taken a Marine raiding party to little Savo Island off Guadalcanal to clean up the remnant of Japanese forces there. Life is like that on Guadalcanal...
...ship. The result was exciting first-person copy, and two miraculous escapes from death: 1) when Allen and the aircraft carrier Illustrious survived a seven-hour Stuka-torpedo plane attack in January 1941; 2) when Allen, who could not swim, almost went to the bottom with the torpedoed British cruiser Galatea...
...stuff" and the Navy was "inordinately flattered by a boastful press." From the Philippines Sims sent a report to the Navy Department in Washington showing that the battleship Kentucky, current pride of the fleet, was a very poor fighting machine-"not a battleship at all." Assigned to the old cruiser Brooklyn, he immediately began tearing her apart in a report, remarked: "I invite you to take a look at the wreck of the Brooklyn when I get through with her." Of the monitor Monterey at Canton, he made only an informal complaint...