Word: helena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mare Island, Calif, for permanent repairs. With new men aboard, she sailed for the South Pacific, trained incessantly at the job her men prized most-gunnery. She made two runs to Guadalcanal, served as escort for the carrier Hornet, then joined the task force which included the Wasp. The Helena was there when the Wasp was torpedoed, took aboard many of the survivors...
...last year, the Helena steamed into her first major engagement. She was part of the task force ordered to intercept the strong Jap force moving to reinforce their units on Guadalcanal. In the Battle of Cape Esperance, the U.S. force turned back the Japs, sank four cruisers, four destroyers and a transport. The Helena cashed in then on her gunners...
...Minutes, Two Ships. At 14 minutes before midnight, her batteries spoke. Her target was a Nip destroyer. Just 98 seconds later it was ablaze. As the enemy ship exploded and sank, the Helena swung her guns on a cruiser...
Four and a half minutes later the blazing cruiser sank. The Helena turned on another cruiser slugging it out with a U.S. cruiser near by. The enemy went down...
...destroyer slipped in close, let go a torpedo. The Helena dodged, wheeled, finished off the attacker, which was already under fire from another U.S. ship. The enemy fleet turned and fled...