Word: haruna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prize catch was one battleship (the Haruna) sunk by Captain Colin Kelly off Luzon, and a fair swap for the sinking of the one battleship (Arizona) irrevocably lost at Pearl Harbor. Other Japanese warships also sunk: one carrier, four cruisers, ten destroyers, seven submarines. Noncombatant ships (freighters, tankers, etc.) known sunk...
...Kelly Jr. His citation was recorded in a single pregnant sentence of a communiqué issued by General Douglas MacArthur: "General MacArthur announced with great sorrow the death of Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr.. who so distinguished himself by scoring three direct hits on the Japanese capital battleship Haruna, leaving her in flames and in distress...
Pilot Kelly probably never returned to his base. A 26-year-old West-Pointer, he was the first Army officer to fly the Boeing Flying Fortress in the Far East. He possibly flew one to his death in the attack on the Haruna. His wife, in Brooklyn with her parents, took the news dry-eyed. She told reporters: "Please, when you write, write only of what Captain Kelly has done, not of me, not of Corkey [their 18-month-old son]. For it is Captain Kelly who deserves all the praise, all the glory." Praise and glory aside. Captain Kelly...
...Japanese battleship Haruna, with 980 or more officers and men aboard, was bombed, set afire and sunk off Luzon Island by American Army bombers...
...Haruna was the first capital ship known to have been lost by the Japanese in the five-day-old Battle f the Pacific. It and the Kirisima comprise hair the number of ships in the Kongo class...