Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action of July 5-6 in Kula Gulf in which U.S. forces sank three Jap cruisers and five destroyers at the cost of one ship, the Helena."-TIME...
...While the amount of damage inflicted on the enemy (in the Kula Gulf engagement) could not be accurately determined, it is probable that two Japanese destroyers were sunk. . . ."-Our Navy at War, Official Re- port by Admiral Ernest J. King, March...
...pick their spot and hope that action would flow in their direction. But finally, to his surprise and consternation, he found too much action flowing his way in one of the Pacific war's most furious naval battles-the action of July 5-6 in Kula Gulf in which U.S. forces sank three Jap cruisers and five destroyers at the cost of one ship, the Helena. He describes the battle in words which give C. S. Forester a run for his nautical money...
...bishop's sailor son, commander of the flagship of the flotilla which blockaded the Gulf ports, died with a musket ball in his head. The bishop's hard-riding grandson commanded a cavalry squadron in the Battle of Santiago, fought alongside Douglas MacArthur's father in the Philippines, died in the insurrection...
...this activity fortified an ancient hope of U.S. geologists: that the great Gulf oil strata of Texas and Louisiana sweep eastward clear to the Atlantic and northward along the coastline, perhaps all the way up to Maryland. It will be years before that hope is finally confirmed or disproved. But meanwhile the southeastern boom fosters a nearer-term political purpose for the rugged individualists of the U.S. oil industry. As Oil Czar Ickes backs his unpopular Arabian pipeline (TIME, Feb. 14, et seq.) with dire warnings that the U.S. "cannot oil another war," the industry can use every...