Word: kula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years: Leahy, Alexander, Gort, Tedder, Doolittle, Montgomery, Spaatz, Spruance, Eisenhower, Wainwright, Forrestal, Bradley. Early in 1943 Taylor went to the Pacific as a correspondent to see and report the war firsthand. The climax of his tour of duty there was his unplanned presence at the night sea battle of Kula Gulf, which he watched from the bridge of the engaged cruiser St. Louis. The way he felt about it became the title of his book on the war in the Pacific: With My Heart in My Mouth. Taylor Is inclined to believe that some sort of rough justice is indicated...
...most readers the single actions which measured off the tremendous campaign are household words-Kula Gulf, Saipan, Leyte, Okinawa-but they remain isolated incidents on the war's vastest and most unfamiliar battlefield. TIME Editor Cant has fitted these battles into the context of comprehensive, coherent history. The battle narratives are packed with detailed descriptions of the forces involved, the missions assigned to each, the complex of pressures which determined the outcome. At the same time, Cant points out the needs which governed the course and timing of U.S. operations...
...Republic's reviewer called it "as fine a piece of current history as I have ever read"). No armchair admiral, he knows sea warfare firsthand-steamed up to Jap-held Vella Lavella to help rescue the cruiser Helena's survivors after the Battle of Kula Gulf - was one of the first five white men to reach Munda airport (he got there 24 hours before our troops marched in) -and in the first raid on Marcus Island he saw three new fighting tools first tested in battle: the Essex class carrier, the Independence type carrier, and the sensational Grumman...
...sorry looking group of Navy men-officers and blue-jackets, all lucky to be alive-waded ashore on a Pacific island. Among them was Charles P. Cecil, tall, cold-eyed skipper of the heroic cruiser Helena (TIME, Nov. 1), which had been torpedoed in the July 7 Battle of Kula Gulf. With the others. Captain Cecil had floated for hours in the oil-covered waters. He had refused to be picked up until his men were rescued...
...While the amount of damage inflicted on the enemy (in the Kula Gulf engagement) could not be accurately determined, it is probable that two Japanese destroyers were sunk. . . ."-Our Navy at War, Official Re- port by Admiral Ernest J. King, March...