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Battle Declined. On the sea the Jap had suffered the same kind of steady attrition. Not since the last great Nov. 13-15 naval battle of Guadalcanal, when he lost a battleship, nine cruisers, six destroyers, twelve transports and had two battleships, a cruiser and six destroyers damaged, has the Jap dared get in a real slugfest with U.S. naval units. But since mid-June, in various fruitless sallies, he has lost six to seven cruisers, at least eleven destroyers, one seaplane tender, one transport, four to six cargo ships. Admitted U.S. losses for that same period were the cruiser...
Among U.S. naval officers in the Pacific is always the hope that one of the offensive steps will aggravate the Jap into sending out his battleships and carriers. They are confident that the Pacific fleet, aided by growing air power, will come out of any showdown victorious. The Jap has declined to risk it. According to Rear Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, back in Washington last week from commanding a South Pacific carrier task force, the Jap must save his heavy naval units to protect his long lines of communication. With the retaking of Kiska those lines of communication are threatened...
...face to the Pacific, the hop-skip to Vella Lavella will look like a pip-squeak. Then strategists can begin to contemplate the kind of spectacular bypassing that will be necessary if we ever expect to reach Tokyo, the kind of massive land invasions necessary to knock the Jap out of his main bases and hold them. Until they can turn around, the Allies will have to be satisfied with keeping the Jap jumping by pinching his protuberances...
Lieut, (j.g.) John F. Kennedy, 26-year-old son of the ex-Ambassador to Britain, was commanding a PT boat on night patrol north of New Georgia when a Jap destroyer sliced it in two. The aft portion went up in flames. Kennedy rescued two of his crewmen, clung to the bow with them and eight others for twelve hours, towed one of the men on a three-hour swim to a small island. There they lived on coconuts for three days, then swam to a larger island, where friendly natives found them the next day, carried back...
Some of the delegates came from such far places as Chico, Calif, and Quonset Point, R.I. Among them were some of the most famed hot pilots of hot ships. Marine Corps Major Joe Foss (26 Jap victims; Congressional Medal) arrived in a Grumman F4F. Major John Smith (19 victories; Congressional Medal) came in a Corsair. Navy Lieut. Stanley Vejtasa (ten victories; Navy Cross with two stars) dropped down in an F6F. Major Vincent ("Squeak") Burnett, champion stunt flyer and specialist in B-26 bombers, dusted in with one of the sleek Marauders...