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...battleship Graf Spee, scuttled in the bay. Her second, closer look came at Pearl Harbor. She was hit, and that day her crew became a fighting team. Her 5-in. anti-aircraft battery, her light weapons spoke with the trained, nervous insistence of a machine. Helena knocked down six Jap planes that calamitous...
...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...
...Jap 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...
First Sight, First Shot. The decisive Battle of Guadalcanal began in earnest that night. The Helena was the first to sight the enemy ships. A Jap cruiser slashed the darkness with her searchlight, caught the Helena, opened fire. The Helena was already on the target. She fired from the hip: a full salvo. The Jap burned like a torch, lighting the way for the U.S. destroyers. As the Jap cruiser began to sink, the Helena's secondary battery pounded down a destroyer...
...Japs began a withdrawal. One of their cruisers was slamming shells at the San Francisco, which had tangled with a Jap battleship and taken the salvo which killed Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan and her skipper, Medal-of-Honorman Cassin Young. The Helena sank the cruiser and a destroyer, shot up three other Jap ships. The U.S. beachhead in the Solomons was finally secure...