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...Prince of Wales), he had fixed in his mind the opposition he would meet. "We are out looking for trouble," he signaled, "and no doubt we shall find it. We hope to surprise the enemy transports tomorrow and we expect to meet the Japanese battleship Kongo." Admiral Phillips said not a word about Japanese airplanes. He went to sea without air protection...
...Haruna was the first capital ship known to have been lost by the Japanese in the five-day-old Battle f the Pacific. It and the Kirisima comprise hair the number of ships in the Kongo class...
Battleships 9-Japan to scrap the Kongo...
...cruiser Jintsu, with a great gaping hole made by the Warabi, listed forward sharply and was towed in this precarious condition toward the Maizuru dockyards by the Kongo. The Ashi was also towed toward land by the Abukama. Neither cruiser lost any men. Total casualties were therefore 129 officers...
...case, but the enormous lead of Germany over the others in respect to passengers was most striking, reflecting as it did a highly developed network of air transport at the public disposal. Features of the European year were: the success of Belgium's route to the Kongo, cutting the time from Brussels to three days from six weeks, the 70% increase of Austria's air mileage in 1925 over 1924, of 100% in passengers, of 180% in air freight...