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...According to Tokyo, a scouting task force of U.S. cruisers and destroyers was attacked by the Japs south of Santa Isabel Island-up the slot from Guadalcanal. The Japs claimed a cruiser and a destroyer...
...road complete with rugged farmer, there were full-page color photos of Franklin Roosevelt (with a story about him) and Henry Wallace (with an article by him). Other features: a three-page color spread of Marines training for combat; a double-truck photo of a bomb-battered, sinking Jap cruiser; three pages of pictures showing camouflaged and bombed Berlin buildings...
...Also claimed: another carrier damaged, one cruiser badly damaged, one battleship...
...October off Guadalcanal. The Jap cruiser wheeled and turned like a crazed whale. On the pursuing U.S. destroyer Duncan nimble fingers adjusted a torpedo director, sent a tin fish on its way. Smoke and water geysered up. The Jap shuddered, rotted over, started towards the bottom...
...losses in the same battles: two carriers badly damaged (believed sunk by flyers who attacked them); one battleship, three heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, eleven destroyers sunk; two battleships, one cruiser, six destroyers damaged; several transports and cargo ships sunk and damaged...