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...Solomons. The O'Bannon was in the thick of that campaign. She was with the outnumbered cruiser task force which plowed into the dark hole of Kula Gulf to intercept and destroy nine to eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers. That was the night the great cruiser Helena was lost (TIME...
...days later the O'Bannon was one of a small force which steamed boldly up to Jap-held Vella Lavella to rescue Helena survivors who were hiding there in the jungles. Two months later off the same shore, she and her sister the Chevalier and the smaller Selfridge met and engaged a force of nine Jap ships, sank three of them and put the rest to rout. The Chevalier, torpedoed, sank. The lucky and valiant O'Bannon survived to win her Presidential citation...
Renascence. In Helena, Mont., Postman W. Rush Burroughs retired from the service after 41 years, got a nice job as a door-to-door salesman...
...rest of the world, we have our Overseas Edition, which goes by boat and plane to English-reading people in some 70 free countries; there is one reader on St. Helena who sometimes gets a whole year's copies at once; and one each in the Canary, Falkland, Fanning and Society Islands. There are two civilian subscribers in Greenland, two in Bechuanaland, three in the Soviet Union...
Last week the Navy added a postscript: nearly 1,000 men of the Helena's complement "today stand fit and ready to fight again." Some of them, oil-smeared and haggard, were picked up near the ship's grave. Others got to nearby islands, lived with the resourcefulness of good fighting men, were finally retrieved. They went to other ships, other stations. But they were still Helena men, would always...