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...scouts from Mitscher's carriers spotted the Japs' central and southern forces, ploughing through the Sibuyan and Sulu Seas. The central force was spearheaded by two new battleships of more than 40,000 tons, the Yamato and Musahi; three oldsters, the Nagato and the durable Kongo and Haruna. Shepherding them were eight cruisers and 13 destroyers. To the south were the 29,000-ton Huso and Yamasiro, going on 30 years old, four cruisers and seven or eight destroyers...
Married. Marion Wick Kelly, 26, widow of the late, famed U.S. Army Air Forces Captain Colin Purdie Kelly Jr., bomber of the Jap battleship Haruna; and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) John Watson Pedlow, 35, peacetime chemical engineer (American Viscose Corp.); in Crozierville, Pa. The mother of three-year-old Colin III ("Corky," nominated for West Point by President Roosevelt in a letter to the U.S. President of 1956), observed: ". . . You can never forget the past. . . . But . . . life will and must go on ... while you need not deliberately seek new ties you must not erect false barriers against them. . . . Lieut. Pedlow will...
...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...