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...right through and destroyed at least 63 Jap aircraft - 30 winged by her AA guns and 33 shot down by her planes. Her flyers also laid two 500-lb. bombs on a Jap carrier of the Syokaku class and 2,000 lb. of bombs on a battleship of the Kongo class. That was only one of her busy days...
...meet an enemy thrust before she was entirely restored; Navy "Seabees" rode along from the base and were still hard at work patching when she started sending her planes into action. In the final round of the Solomons battle last November, the torpedo bombers caught a Kongo-class battleship, slapped it with six tin fish and left it dead in the water...
Stealthily through a Solomons channel a Jap Kongo Class battleship slipped near dusk on Oct. 25. A squad of Navy SBDs dive-bombed it, streaked back to Guadalcanal. A half-hour later six Army Flying Fortresses swung over the channel. From a tight, high-level formation they straddle-bombed the ship, scored two square hits. The battleship turned 45 degrees, headed north. Suddenly a magazine let loose. Fire leaped from bow to stern. The ship stopped dead. For hours the calm South Pacific sky and sea were lighted by flames until at midnight the battleship sank...
...Action. The first Japanese naval force included two battleships of the Kongo class, two heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, ten destroyers (no carriers were mentioned). This force slithered into three groups, primed to bombard Henderson Field. This was no repetition of Aug. 8-9, when the U.S. lost three heavy cruisers and the Australians one in a surprise night attack. This time Halsey apparently obtained the surprise. His guns opened at point-blank range; his torpedoes went home. In the resultant confusion two of the Jap groups fired on one another...
Admiral Halsey's flyers damaged two Jap aircraft carriers of the 17,000-ton Zuikaku class-one of them with four to six heavy bomb hits. They hit a battleship of the 29,330-ton Kongo class with two heavy bombs, another battleship with one; scored torpedo and bomb hits on three heavy cruisers. The Jap plane loss was heavier than in the Coral Sea battle, about half as heavy as Midway: "over 100" destroyed, 50 more probably shot down...