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...Ships fired almost simultaneously and then the Jap seemed to withdraw...
...Soon the Jap organizer, who had been nicknamed Tojo, the lamplighter, dropped some flares as he circled us. Then for another three hours the planes made their runs at us and retired while Tojo kept lighting up the street lights. . . . You caught the enormity of our task force as the firing commenced again at both sides...
...midnight approached, our skipper decided that the men below might be wanting rest. He ordered the squawkbox silenced. A man telling me about that decision next day said: 'They left us with Jap torpedo planes closing in. We waited for word and waited. The uncertainty was killing...
Seventy-Two for Five. Again & again that night Jap planes lashed down. U.S. ships flailed back with heavy fire, zigzagged to avoid torpedoes. When the attacks ceased, after 24 hours of raid and counter-raid, the announced score stood: 72 Jap planes destroyed; five U.S. planes lost, one U.S. warship slightly damaged. (For a notable picture of one of the Jap planes going down...
Admiral Pownall's forces had still more business. From the Marshalls they headed for Nauru, the British phosphate island seized by the Japs in early 1942. There, Tarawa to Truk, the Jap Pearl Harbor, the American fleet, including battleships, shelled and bombed the enemy's airdrome and shore defenses. The score: ten Jap planes destroyed; two U.S. planes lost, one U.S. destroyer damaged by shore batteries...