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...survivors still faced death, and more than half of them met it within 48 hours. Transferred to the Pecos, they were attacked by the Jap again. Near night fall her list was so great that her gun crews had to get on hands & knees to stay aboard...
Over the side again went hundreds of sailors. The Jap potted scores of them with machine guns as they bobbed on the waves. The Pecos, down by the stern, was still fighting, and the men in the water could see her executive, Commander Lawrence J. McPeake. serving a machine gun. He went down with her as night fell...
Again a destroyer picked up what was left of the two crews. It took them to Australia. There, at Darwin, the Jap had sunk the destroyer Peary. Her crew had fought her to the last, while the water rose around them, never left her until her deck was awash...
...Jap had done a good week's work, had made the key play in a desperate game that was now his. Counting its dead, the U.S. Navy calculated it had lost 700 of the 1,156 in the complements of the three ships...
...Japs took a licking last week. They took it over and off northern Australia: at Kupang in Timor; at Salamaua and Lae in New Guinea, where U.S. and Aussie bombs scrambled scores of Jap planes on the ground; at Darwin, where four, possibly six, Jap bombers fell in one raid. More & more U.S. and Australian planes met fewer & fewer Japanese planes. Still more U.S. fighters, pilots and ground crews were arriving; more bombers were completing the long air-ferry leap across the Pacific...