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...lost a friend when the U.S.S. Houston went down in the great naval battle of the Java Sea: the sleek 10,000-ton heavy cruiser was a favorite; on her he had traveled 25,445 miles, taken four voyages...
West of the Gilbert Islands, at least 5,000 miles southwest of Los Angeles, Japanese bombers attacked a task force, including a U.S. carrier identified by the Japanese as the Yorktown. Correspondent Francis McCarthy of the U.P. was on a heavy cruiser. "Only the term 'mass suicide' can describe the fate of the seven bombers that made up the first attacking wave," he wrote. "They approached this warship from starboard slightly astern at an estimated altitude of 8,000 to 10,000 feet...
...Navy repaid in kind. In a single week (ending March 6), U.S. submarines in the western Pacific sank one big Jap destroyer, one large naval tanker; hit and "definitely put out of action" one Jap aircraft carrier, three cruisers. U.S. guns, torpedoes and bombs had sunk 138 Jap vessels to date, sunk or damaged 20 Japanese cruisers-almost half of Japan's known cruiser strength...
Outnumbered, outgunned, sorely in need of heavy cruisers to bolster their light naval units, the Allies took a beating off Java. The Dutch had started the war with five cruisers: the loss was a severe blow to total cruiser strength in the Indies. For his losses, the Jap got his landings on Java (see p. 16). For the Allies, graver than their total loss in ships was the immediate threat to their last naval base in the Indies...
...Prinz Eugen, a fast and tough 10,000-ton cruiser, had slipped out of Brest with the battleships. She could be a scourge to Atlantic convoys. Last week First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander announced that a 10,000-ton German cruiser, apparently the Eugen, had taken a torpedo in the North Sea from a British submarine. The Eugen has multi-compartment torpedo protection: but, like the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, she was laid up for a while...