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...Americans were there to get guarantees against use by the Axis of any French possessions in the Caribbean. Purpose: to lock up the French warships in the area-the aircraft carrier Béarn and the cruiser Emile Berlin at Martinique, the cruiser Jeanne D'Arc at Guadeloupe-and some 100-odd weather-damaged fighter planes...
...Time for Rejoicing. The Jap had taken a shattering defeat. The Navy listed his losses: sunk, one aircraft carrier, one heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, two destroyers, one seaplane tender, four gunboats, two submarines, three supply vessels; damaged, a carrier, heavy cruiser, light cruiser, seaplane tender, two merchantmen...
Jellicoe and Scheer commanded from their bridges at Jutland, but today things are different. Chester Nimitz has commanded submarines, and cruiser and battleship divisions, but he has never trod the bridge of the fleet flagship in action. And under today's condition of warfare he probably never will. That is why Texas-born Chester Nimitz had need of his famed, monumental patience last week...
With her rudder jammed hard over, the Marblehead circled like a headless hen, smoke seething fore & aft. Her decks slithered with oil, water, patches of blood. Once more the ship was hit. Sky guns from the cruiser Houston winged a bomber which tried to suicide-dive the Marblehead, crashed into the water only 30 feet away...
...U.S.S. Marblehead, light cruiser often claimed sunk . . . was bombed to hell and brought out of it by a crew that doesn't know the meaning of the word abandon. Thus the Navy last week began a long delayed tale of heroism about the Battle of Java...