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Ships in the Japanese anchorage in the Buin-Faisi area and at Rabaul were slapped night after night by heavy and medium bombers from General MacArthur's command. Army pilots saw one cruiser blow up. Total hits claimed by MacArthur: 36, including one carrier and five cruisers...
...Naval officers this week described the hot surface engagement off Guadalcanal Oct. 11-12, claiming one Jap cruiser sunk by gunfire, three others badly...
...statement by Expert Hanson W. Baldwin (see p. 67) that the Haruna probably had not been sunk was no longer much of a jolt. Laymen could turn a clearer eye upon tabulations indicating that the Japs, to date, had lost perhaps a third of their known (and probably underestimated) cruiser strength, nearly one-third of their destroyers, six of their carriers, some 75 warships, while the U.S. had lost only 58 in the Pacific. Present Pacific naval strength...
...Cruisers and destroyers are now a critical U.S. category. In actual numbers, the U.S. probably has the edge in destroyers and is somewhere near even in cruiser strength. But the Atlantic fleet, stripped and stripped though it has been, still requires an important proportion of the available total. The long convoy lines of the Pacific suck up more. Result: the Navy is hard put to find enough cruisers and destroyers for task-force duty, screening carriers and battleships, raiding enemy concentrations. That is one reason why the loss of the Astoria, Vincennes and Quincy was serious, why the U.S. showed...
Disaster at Savo. Reporter Baldwin gave the blackest account yet printed of the naval disaster Aug. 9, in which three U.S. cruisers and one Australian cruiser were sunk (TIME, Oct. 19). "The Astoria, Quincy, Vincennes and Canberra . . . were surprised like sitting ducks; none of them had a chance to get off more than a few ineffectual salvos . . . despite the fact that one of our planes [had reported] the approach of the Japanese cruisers the afternoon prior to the night action. . . . They [the U.S. cruisers] had assumed a defensive position, patrolling over a fixed course in narrow waters and awaiting...