Word: jap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first flush of elation over U.S. landings in Africa had hardly died when the Navy told of smashing the Jap in the Solomons. Never before had the full realization of global war been hammered home so hard in one week-and out of the bitter fighting America had a new pride in itself...
With two others (John Rivers of Philadelphia and Lee Diamond of New York), Schmid was lying mouse-quiet in a machine-gun nest on the bank of a sluggish river dividing the American-held beachhead from Jap territory. The long-expected attack came early in the morning. Said Schmid...
...Results. Jap losses: one battleship (the first claimed by the Navy), three heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, five destroyers, twelve transports. U.S. losses: two light cruisers, six destroyers. Another Jap battleship and six destroyers were damaged. (The Navy does not ordinarily announce damage to its own ships...
...Approach. Early in the week General MacArthur's bombers flew over the northern Solomons and reported the Jap convoy steaming toward Guadalcanal-"packed to the gunwales. . . . We were never able to view the entire thing at one time." There were other harbingers of a big attack. One day 35 dive-bombers screened by 17 Zeros attacked Guadalcanal's Henderson Field. Next day 31 Jap planes, 23 of them carrying torpedoes, tried to hit Navy forces that were shelling Jap positions. U.S. Wildcats shot down...
WASHINGTON--The smashing American naval victory in the Solomons last week may have been even greater than originally reported, lit was revealed tonight on the basis of a communique showing that five Jap warships--including a battleship or heavy cruiser--were sunk the night of Nov. 14-15 in a savage slugfest of dreadnaughts and other heavy units...