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...second night Japanese cruisers and destroyers tried to smash the invasion fleet. Then came what U.S. tars had long prayed for: the first real, gun-to-gun test of U.S. and Japanese surface seapower. Result: a licking for the Japs. The Navy said that U.S. cruisers and destroyers kept the Japs well away from the transports, finally forced the whole Jap fleet to retreat. Both sides took their losses; the Navy's cryptic account indicated only that they were heavy, that the Japanese had not dared another test of surface strength. The Navy calmly left others to infer that...
...Axis claims were extravagant. Berlin later admitted that the report about the Wasp was incorrect. But the British admitted the loss of the new 9,400-ton heavy cruiser Manchester. They also admitted the torpedoing of the Eagle...
...communiqués admitted that stiff resistance was encountered, admitted that at least one U.S. cruiser was sunk, two cruisers, two destroyers and one transport damaged. But they announced that initial surprise had been achieved, that many enemy planes had been downed and surface vessels put out of action...
...made the natives in the slumlands of Spanish Town and Old Harbor increasingly restless. On the fringes of Kingston there are 9,000 now unemployed inland and mountain laborers, who refuse to go home after a taste of higher wages on Jamaica's new U.S. naval base. The cruiser Ajax and troops from Bermuda quelled Kingston's strike riots in 1938. Now 1,300 white vigilantes patrol the streets at night with clubs and revolvers. Last week Canadian and U.S. troops were ordered out on parade one day before the annual celebration of Emancipation Day, commemorating the freeing...
...Monel-metal urinals (70% nickel, 30% copper), chrome-plated brass towel hangers, aluminum lockers, 13,000 lb. of brass name plates are among the Navy's specifications for a seaworthy cruiser...