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...marked "He died for Germany." To an Aussie we met up the road I said: "I suppose many of your pals were lost." He just looked at me sadly and then smiled and said: "Yes, of course, but we've got to beat the Hun and the Jap...
...that rare combination of intellectual capacity and military audacity, and can calculate to a cat's whisker the risk involved in operations when successful accomplishments will bring great returns. He possesses superb leadership qualities which have earned him a tremendous following of his men. His only enemies are Japs. . . . For his successful turning back of the Jap attempt to take Guadalcanal in mid-November he has been nominated by the President for the rank of Admiral, which reward he richly deserves...
...task force of cruisers and destroyers under Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan drove in on the Jap bombardment group. The U.S. flagship was the heavy cruiser San Francisco, the afterpart of whose superstructure had been messed up a bit by the crash of a Jap torpedo pilot the day before. Behind her steamed a column of heavy and light cruisers. Destroyers flanked the line of battle...
Admiral Callaghan struck as his commander would have wanted. It was almost a Nelsonian stroke. At first he brought his battle line to bear on the forward ships of the oncoming Japanese lines. He engaged a Jap cruiser with his main batteries and a destroyer with his secondary batteries, and sank both. The rest of his line swung its guns on to the Jap formation behind...
Admiral Callaghan swung his task force right into the main Jap forces. Without hesitation, he drove his ship, whose biggest guns were 8-in., to within 2,000 yards of a Jap battleship, which carried 14-in. guns. He led his force right between two Japanese groups, so that when he pulled out the Japs fired on each other. ("I hope," said Admiral Nimitz, telling about this later, "that the Jap gunnery was up to the usual excellent standard which they have always shown against...