Word: haruna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aerial torpedoes and bombs sank the Prince of Wales and the battle cruiser Repulse. Torpedoes and bombs did the work at Pearl Harbor. Torpedoes damaged the Bismarck, readied her for the kill by naval shells. The Haruna, supposedly sunk by Captain Colin Kelly, cannot be listed as a certain victim of bombing until postwar investigation clears up the U.S. Navy's doubts...
...simple and excellent purpose of showing how U.S. airmen fight. The Mary Ann and her crew, a composite of many ships and men, fight in every important air battle from Pearl Harbor to the Coral Sea, including a re-enactment of Colin Kelly's attack on the battleship Haruna. In this story of one ship, Air Force rolls up all the excitement of the air war in the Pacific...
After the Haruna battle, with Pilot Quincannon mortally wounded, two motors damaged and the Mary Ann riddled like a Swiss cheese, her crew throws her bombsight into the sea and bails out. But Gunner Winocki hangs on, brings her home to a pancake landing. Almost a wreck, the Mary Ann is ordered burned by the Army air commander. But she has one more big fight left in her. While ground troops hold off the Japs, the Mary Ann's crew patches her together in the jungle. Over the Coral Sea she joins fighters, torpedo and dive-bombers...
...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 of their destroyers, six of their carriers, some 75 warships...
...Pacific the Japs have more battleships to start with than the U.S. has. Before Dec. 7, they had at least twelve and were building at least three more monsters of somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 tons. They have lost at least one (the old Haruna). So the Japs probably have eleven battleships in service today-considerably more than the U.S. regularly bases in the Pacific. But in tonnage and fire power the fleets have somewhere near parity; and, if the Jap battlewagons are scattered from Nagasaki to Ceylon there is always the chance that a bold move...