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...action of July 5-6 in Kula Gulf in which U.S. forces sank three Jap cruisers and five destroyers at the cost of one ship, the Helena."-TIME...
...technique was to pick their spot and hope that action would flow in their direction. But finally, to his surprise and consternation, he found too much action flowing his way in one of the Pacific war's most furious naval battles-the action of July 5-6 in Kula Gulf in which U.S. forces sank three Jap cruisers and five destroyers at the cost of one ship, the Helena. He describes the battle in words which give C. S. Forester a run for his nautical money...
...Bannon became a legend. In June 1943, Admiral Halsey began the drive to knock the Japs out of the rest of the Solomons. The O'Bannon was in the thick of that campaign. She was with the outnumbered cruiser task force which plowed into the dark hole of Kula Gulf to intercept and destroy nine to eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers. That was the night the great cruiser Helena was lost (TIME...
...morning of the Battle of Kula Gulf, Navy officers, aware that the gulf was full of dangerous coral reefs, ordered a quick chart. Such a job would ordinarily take at least three days. Army planes from Guadalcanal swarmed over the gulf, hastily shot 1,500 pictures covering nearly 500 sq.mi. In eight and a half hours the pictures were taken, developed, and assembled in a mosaic showing all the reefs. In the battle that night no U.S. ship ran aground...
Pearl Harbor to Kula. Only once in World War II has the Japanese Navy fought a major surface action which was not linked with Japanese troop movements. That action was also the only defensive battle the Japanese Navy has fought. The record...