Word: hansons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than the U.S. had, hammered the lesson home. It was easier, now, to see that reports of Japanese carrier losses in the Coral Sea and at Midway may have been "accurate in themselves, but that the Japs' total carrier strength had been underestimated. Even the statement by Expert Hanson W. Baldwin (see p. 67) that the Haruna probably had not been sunk was no longer much of a jolt. Laymen could turn a clearer eye upon tabulations indicating that the Japs, to date, had lost perhaps a third of their known (and probably underestimated) cruiser strength, nearly one-third...
Last week the New York Times concluded the best series of reports yet written on the Pacific war. The reporter: 39-year-old Hanson W. Baldwin, who may well turn out to be the outstanding U.S. example of the commentator who serves his country and the armed services by directing intelligent criticism where it will do the most good...
Making of an Expert. Before September 1939, Hanson Baldwin had accumulated a solid reputation for sound reporting of naval affairs. Then he included the Army in his field. He wrote books (United We Stand, Strategy for Victory, The Caissons Roll, Admiral Death, What the Citizen Should Know About the Navy). After Dec. 7, he wrote a column of signed comment. His reputation grew...
Last August he set off on a tour of Hawaii, Palmyra, the Fijis, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, the Solomons. When he returned, he wrote eight analytical reports. By last week, when the Times published the final installment, Hanson Baldwin's stature as a military reporter and critic had enormously increased...
...Dangerous Situation. The New York Times's military analyst, Hanson Baldwin, who flew from the U.S. to the Solomons to look for himself, aptly described the Jap attack on the Marines as one prong of a three-pronged offensive. A second prong was feeling its way down the "impassable" Owen Stanley Mountain Range...