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...Though the admirals can now dig up speeches to show that they realized the value of carrier-cruiser task forces long before Pearl Harbor, it was the lash of post-Pearl Harbor necessity that forced some of them to shove the startling World War II weapon, the carrier, into the No. 1 capital-ship slot. Many admirals were mentally aware of the new order in naval affairs, but their hearts were still on the bridges of their battleships. Pearl Harbor did not make those admirals love the airplane, but it forced them to marry...
WASHINGTON--American torpedo planes and dive bombers, blasting the seventh Jap invasion against Guadalcanal, sank an enemy cruiser or destroyer, set fire to three other warships and shot down 10 aircraft last Thursday at a cost of only three planes, the Navy disclosed today...
...Dougherty's bombs stuck. "Let's dive bomb," said Lieut. Ed Magee. The Fortress' wings held on miraculously; the bombs came out; the Jap transport sank. Lieut. Colonel James T. Connally (Senator Tom's cousin), Commander of the 19th from April until July, sank a cruiser, a destroyer, a large transport, at least four other vessels, scored four hits on a battleship. The 19th's Captain Frank Bostrom flew MacArthur into Australia...
Just how important the desperate Japs considered their toe hold on the north coast of New Guinea was indicated by the price they were willing to pay for reinforcements. In ten days MacArthur's planes sank a cruiser, six destroyers and two landing boats. Some reinforcements did land. The advancing Allies found among their newest slaughter Japanese Marine shock troops with new uniforms and well-filled bellies...
...General Horii knew what it was like to strive mightily to reinforce battered troops when they were hemmed in on three sides (last week the fresh Americans took over the fiercest fighting assignments from the jungle-weary Australians). For his striving the Emperor's General lost a cruiser and two destroyers, blown to pieces by U.S. and Australian pilots...