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...dark night, with long swells running. The U.S.S. Boise, knifing along at 25 knots, was part of a cruiser column, screened by destroyers, sent to head off a Jap landing force in the Solomons. Suddenly there were enemy ships to starboard...
...tall mast was scorched by flame, great blisters of paint bulged from her stanchions. Hundreds of shell fragments had scarred and pocked her. But she moved proud and unfaltering through the early-morning haze. In the Solomons that terrible night in October, she had slugged it out with six Jap warships, had taken everything they threw at her, had lost 107 of her men and all of her beauty-but every one of the Jap ships is now at the bottom...
...enemy, which had been burning very brightly, exploded violently several times and was not seen again. . . . For two minutes the Boise had no target. Then fires were observed burning on an enemy destroyer. For two minutes Captain Moran's guns hit her and she disappeared." Finally a Jap destroyer opened deadly fire, but the Boise disposed of her with the help of other U.S. ships...
WASHINGTON--A lone Jap raider which struck at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning bombed Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and caused "some personnel casualties," the Navy announced today...
Protected by her brother, Serge, who left the College as a Sophomore this year to join the Army Air Corps, Tamara spent the period of virtual imprisonment under the watchful eyes of four Jap police and sundry spies...