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...week's end the 2,200-ton destroyer Laffey limped into Seattle's Elliott Bay from an encounter off Okinawa (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Six suicidal Jap pilots had smashed their planes into her. Thousands of man-hours would be required to put her back in the war. One day, more ships than could be accommodated at repair docks waited in Elliott Bay. Repair work was given top priority...
...Seattle this week citizens could troop wonderingly aboard to gape at the shattered mast, twisted guns and clawed hull of the 2,200-ton destroyer Laffey, still-floating proof of Becton's word...
...cost of that furious two-hour battle to the Laffey was 31 men killed or missing, 60 wounded. The Japs lost their six suicide planes and eight more shot down. In brisk, factual fashion, Lieut. Frank Manson, communications officer, told how it went, that morning of April...
Guadalcanal. Until last week the first thundering quarter hour of the naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Nov. 13-15, 1942 had not been explained in any communiqué: "In the first 15 minutes . . . the Gushing had been put out of action by gunfire and was dead in the water; the Laffey had been sunk, the Sterett and O'Bannon had been damaged; the Atlanta was burning, and the San Francisco and Portland had been badly holed...
...Navy named last week one carrier, three cruisers and six destroyers which it had previously admitted lost between Oct. 26 and Dec. 1 but had not named. The carrier was the Hornet. The cruisers were the Atlanta, Juneau, Northampton. The destroyers were the Cushing, Preston, Benham, Walke, Monssen, Laffey, Barton. Most interesting news was the inclusion of the Atlanta and Juneau-fast, light anti-aircraft vessels bristling with 16-five-inch guns. Their loss was presumably due to their meeting surface vessels, against which they had not been primarily designed to fight...