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Last January Graebner returned to the U.S. aboard a British cruiser. On the way over he got a dramatic sea-level view of the Battle of the Atlantic, for 26 U-boats were plotted on the ship's course between Ireland and Newfoundland. Since then he has been writing his personal knowledge and experiences into TIME'S Foreign News—and getting reacquainted with his family with whom he has spent only 14 weeks in the past two and a half years...
Dive-bombers dipped, torpedo-planes flew low and level at the massed Jap cruisers, destroyers, troop transports, auxiliaries. The attacking pilots swore and yelled into their phones in excitement. Some of their targets sank at anchor; others, aflame, died on the harbor beaches. From three attacks that day, every U.S. plane returned to the mother carriers—the Lexington and another, unnamed—waiting 100 miles south of Tulagi with a covering force of cruisers and destroyers. _ Two mornings later, scout-bombers sighted a Japanese carrier-cruiser force, about 180 miles north of the U.S. force. Attacking U.S. pilots soon...
...Fortresses to the attack. Clouds compelled his crews to fly fairly low (at about 7,000 feet). The accuracy of the Japs' anti-aircraft fire surprised the U.S. pilots and bounced their planes around, but none was brought down. In this first attack, they reported hits on one cruiser, a transport, possibly a second cruiser and a battleship...
...Japanese were unhappy about Britain's prior lease on the strategically rich Diégo-Suarez naval base (TIME, May 18). They showed their anger by a surprise submarine attack in which they claimed last week to have damaged a British battleship and a light cruiser. The British Admiralty admitted the attack, but said there had been no casualties. Meanwhile, British forces groping southward a few miles from Diégo-Suarez found that the Vichyfrench had not yet given up. Neither had the Japanese. Probably sneaking ashore from Jap submarines, the two late officers undoubtedly had important plans...
...That for the sake of diplomacy and international unity, the President had had to watch his beloved Navy lose many a ship, including the cruiser Houston and the aircraft tender Langley-without comment other than his citation of Admiral Hart...