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...battleship (a second damaged and perhaps sunk), one cruiser, one destroyer, perhaps 75 planes...
...crew of the Philippine Clipper was at Wake when the first attack came-18 Jap planes that bombed and strafed the construction camp, the docks and fuel installations. The Clipper was ordered back to Honolulu. The Marines stayed on. Somehow they managed to sink a Jap cruiser and a destroyer. They knocked down two enemy planes...
...which time the sea was brilliantly sunlit, nine Japanese planes were sighted at 10,000 feet. They flew in single file along the length of the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Repulse. A bomb hit the catapult deck and exploded in the hangar, setting a fire below decks. The Repulse's planes, instead of being out on reconnaissance, were in hangar...
...British cruiser Dorsetshire, which fired the final shot into the Bismarck, downed a converted 10,000-ton merchant ship somewhere in the South Atlantic...
...Operating in the same area, the cruiser Devonshire, "hoodoo ship" of the British Navy, surprised a raider as it was putting fuel into small boats probably for submarines. Placing a fatal shot in the raider's magazine, and fearing the presence of a U-boat, it sped away without picking up survivors...