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Just after the first landings on Bougainville, a task force apparently consisting of four cruisers and eight destroyers swept down toward the beachhead. About 40 miles from the landing point, the Japs met a roughly equal U.S. force. The Japanese kept the U.S. force at arm's length by clever use of flares and torpedoes. But the fire control and aiming devices of the U.S. ships were superior. At extreme range, they were able to sink one cruiser and two destroyers for sure (admitted by Japan) and probably two more destroyers (claimed by the U.S.). Announced U.S. loss...
...occasionally leaves something to be desired; and last week's communiques on the reconnaissance reports may very well have duplicated each other. But it was clear that the commander of Japan's Combined Fleet, Mineichi Koga, had been stung into action. He sent forward to Rabaul substantial cruiser forces in support of troop and supply ships, still did not commit battleships or carriers so far as U.S. reconnaissance could determine...
When the Japanese ships reached Rabaul, a U.S. Navy carrier force of 100 planes hit them. Torpedo planes and dive-bombers reported hits on five heavy cruisers and a light cruiser. Torpedoes alone hit two destroyers and a sixth heavy cruiser. Dive-bombers hit a second light cruiser. Later, Army planes bombed port, installations at Rabaul, claimed hits on a merchant ship...
Indifference and college labs seemed today, to have dimmed the chances of Coach Jack MacDonald's Crimson booters for the crowning glory of a soccer season--a victory over Yale. A game against British cruiser teams headlines this week's schedule, while a Wednesday test with Brown will be the final warmup for Saturday's match...
After his threatened return to the Nazis, Singer attempted, to escape to England by meeting a British cruiser in occupied Norway. When he missed the warship he was saved miraculously by a small Finnish vessel, which brought him to America...