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...Paid. Dutch and U.S. cruisers and destroyers sighted a great Japanese convoy of 40 transports, 20 warships. The transports stayed well away from the naval combatants-a precautionary measure which they seemed to follow throughout the Java invasion. At twelve-mile range the Allied cruisers loosed their main batteries on the Japanese. Destroyers closed with shell and torpedo fire. A Japanese heavy cruiser sank. Another Jap cruiser-the Mogami, whose main batteries had apparently been converted from 6.1-to 8-in. guns-retired in flames. Hits crippled a third 8-in. gun cruiser. Three Jap destroyers blazed up, appeared...
...Army's new dive-bombers-low-winged, fast Douglas A245 -roared down at Jap ships and troop barges. Flying Fortresses, Tomahawks, PBYs, R.A.F. Hurricanes and the Dutch U.S.-made Lockheed Hudsons massed for the defense. A Jap cruiser seemed to disintegrate under U.S. bombs. One or more Jap destroyers went down. Confused though the communiques were, it was clear that the Jap lost heavily in warships, transports and troops...
Half a mile off the selected landing spot, they placed destroyers. Three miles behind the destroyers, a cruiser or battleship took station. Between the light and heavy war ships were transports. An aircraft carrier nested in their midst...
Larry Allen, U.S. war correspondent who nearly drowned in the Mediterranean when the British cruiser he was aboard, H.M.S. Galatea, was torpedoed, took his first swimming lessons in Miami. He had sworn to learn to swim 20 feet -"enough to escape the suction" in a sinking. When he met the teacher (see cut), he upped the distance...
LONDON--A British submarine has torpedoed the German cruiser Prinz Eugene, and the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau lie severely damaged at North Sea Ports, but the Nazis are still building submarines faster than the Allies can sink them, First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander told the House of Commons today...