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...carrier-based naval squadron of dive-bombers and torpedo planes smashed a Jap fleet movement of one carrier flanked by cruisers and destroyers. Torpedo-plane Pilot Lieut. Bruce Harwood of Claremont, Calif., flew within 800 yards of the carrier (presumably the 7,100-ton Ryuzyo) before releasing a "pickle" that sent a giant plume of flame from the ship's bow. In the opening Solomon Islands' sea battle Jap fleet units took a terrific pounding. To U.P. Reporter Joe James Custer the great balls of flame being volleyed back & forth over the blue court of the ocean turned...
...Japs kept coming. By last week they had lost at least 22 ships in the Solomons area. Between Aug. 7 and Sept. 15 they lost 165 planes. They concentrated their aerial bombing on the captured Guadalcanal air base. In northern Tulagi Island Jap troops which escaped death or capture (450 were captured) were joined by night landing parties. The Marines clearly were under heavy and growing pressure. It was up to the Navy, which had started the Solomons show, to finish it. The battle for the occupied portion of the Solomons was by no means over...
...June 4, at the height of the Battle of Midway, Jap bombers found the York. Her planes had already been in furious battle. They had helped to sink three Jap carriers and were preparing to attack a fourth...
...some 18,000 feet, the Jap planes looked like tiny match sticks. They dived for the Yorktown's heart. Every gun of the carrier and her escort began to blaze. Tiny planes hesitated in their dives, made brief flowers of flame, fell into the sea. But a few kept coming at the Yorktown. The bombs slashed through the decks, started fires over the fuel tanks and magazines. Life rafts, splintered boxes, wrecked planes showered about the ship...
Crews worked frantically to control the fire and patch the twisted deck. But more Jap planes caught up with the limping carrier...