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...surprised Jap manned his shore batteries and his shipboard antiaircraft. Only one fighter rose to intercept. Desperately it flung down on one of the big American bombers, locked wings and fell from the sky, bringing its victim with it. That was the only American loss. The planes returned to their Australian base, having successfully completed the second longest air raid for land-based bombers in the Pacific War-1,000 miles...
With other youngsters, like Lieut. Commander "Jimmy" Flatley, he shouted for more training in deflection shooting - i.e., "leading" the enemy plane, as a hunter fires ahead of a speeding duck to intercept his course. From gunnery it was a short step to tactics-the science of placing and maneuvering planes to do the most damage to the enemy...
...Failure. On Pearl Harbor day she was the only U.S. carrier to get into action. She was headed home from a task-force mission when the stunning word came, and promptly launched planes to intercept the enemy raiders. She was not successful that time. But better luck was ahead, and Enterprise was seldom in port from then until after the victorious Solomons campaign...
...dream of every U.S. warcaster is to talk from the scene of battle itself. But live broadcasts from the fighting fronts are not practical (the enemy might intercept them). And most recording equipment to date has been too bulky for much front-line use. Last week, however, it looked as if the broadcasters were coming close to their dream...
Actually all the Japs attempted was to intercept a convoy and to evacuate their own officers and technicians from Guadalcanal. The fighting consisted entirely of air attacks on surface vessels rather than warship slugging it out against warship. The heavy cruiser Chicago was damaged January 29 and sunk in a second attack the next day. An unnamed destroyer was sunk by dive bombers February 1. The Japs lost two destroyers sunk; four destroyers probably destroyed; six other destroyers, one corvette and two cargo ships damaged...