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...Navy told a story of another brave ship. The light cruiser Santa Fe had not been hit at all, but she had been in the thick of almost every fight since the Aleutians. Before she finally was sent back for an overhaul, the Santa Fe spent 25 months in the Pacific. "I'd hate to see us get hit," said a junior officer after 16 months aboard, "but a lot of us sure would like to get home...
...Battle for Leyte Gulf she polished off two Jap cripples, an escort carrier and a light cruiser. In 25 months she fired 174,350 rounds of antiaircraft, plus 33,323 rounds of 5-and 6-inch shells at enemy shores...
Worst sufferer was the heavy cruiser Pittsburgh, a 13,000-ton yearling. Her bow began to quiver under the buffeting of mountainous seas; the forward compartments were cleared of men, and just in time. A huge wave threw her 10° to 15° off her course; the next tore off 104 feet...
...Fourth of July. The ancient cruiser Baía was patrolling the South Atlantic along the route that Allied planes fly from Natal to Dakar. With four U.S. Navy technicians aboard, some of the Brazilian sailors were celebrating Independence Day. A stunning explosion rocked the Baía. Subsequent blasts literally blew her apart. Blue-bloused sailors were tossed into the waves. Commander Davila Garcia Albuquerque, his arm shattered by the explosion, shouted to his crew, "Save yourselves; I'm finished." But few of them were able to. Three minutes after the first explosion the Baía sank...
Rumor Crop. The unexpected arrival of the U-530 started a flood of rumors. Brazilian Admiral Jorge Dodsworth Mar tins, boiling mad over the loss of the cruiser Baía (see above), said he believed "that the U-530 could have torpedoed the Baía." Another Brazilian, Admiral Dudal Teixeira, believed that the U-530 came from Japan. An Argentine reporter topped them both: he had seen a Buenos Aires provincial police report to the effect that a strange submarine had surfaced off the long, lonely, lower Argentine coast, had landed a high-ranking officer and a civilian...