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...great carrier Ark Royal, the cruiser Sydney and the battleship Barham were destroyed within eleven days in November 1941. On Dec. 7 came the U.S. disaster at Pearl Harbor, three days later the sinking of the battleship Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse off the coast of Malaya. The Royal Navy, upon which Britain depended for her strength and the U.S. for security in the Atlantic, faced the worst crisis since April...
...British officers, unarmed, went aboard the cruiser Eugenio de Savoia. They were courteously received by Admiral Bagliria's successor in command, Admiral Romulo Olivia, and fed the best dinner they had eaten in months. Accustomed to the sparse quarters on British ships, they admired the Admiral's sumptuous mess and the tiled bathrooms of the Italian officers' quarters. The British officers heard an Italian officer say: "The Germans make big mistakes. The Italians make little ones, but lots of them. We are not very good at anything...
...Aerial torpedoes and bombs sank the Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse. Torpedoes and bombs did the work at Pearl Harbor. Torpedoes damaged the Bismarck, readied her for the kill by naval shells. The Haruna, supposedly sunk by Captain Colin Kelly, cannot be listed as a certain victim of bombing until postwar investigation clears up the U.S. Navy's doubts...
...cruiser was part of the first task force to bombard Munda and Vila," he said in an interview soon after his arrival at Harvard. "We also were the first to venture 300 miles north of Guadalcanal...
...force was credited with sinking two Japanese cruisers," he said. "The Japanese had bracketed the ship I was on. The first salvo struck the water on one side and the second on another. We all took a long breath waiting for the third to hit us squarely but by that time the cruiser which had been firing at us was disabled. Several times we received scares when 1,000 pound aerial bombs and torpedoes just missed our ship...