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...TIME'S statement was based on: i) the U.S. Navy's communique; 2) observations of U.S. Naval officers who fought the battle; 3) the reports of TIME Correspondent Duncan Norton-Taylor, who was there. Admiral King's "official reports" are notoriously conservative...
Three In One. With My Heart in My Mouth is the unpretentious story of a visit Duncan Norton-Taylor paid (for TIME) to the Pacific war last summer. He felt about as warlike as most Americans. In Honolulu, he made a heartbreaking tour over the death-stinking decks of ships being raised from Pearl Harbor; and when he lunched with a group of nurses, "the least composed person at the table was I." He lost his Abercrombie & Fitch trench coat, the true war correspondent's caparison, in New Caledonia. He took a kind of tourist's gander...
...Duncan Norton-Taylor observed that the correspondents' 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...
What Warriors Think About. Correspondent Norton-Taylor's favorite service acquaintances felt the same way about home. Red Quigley became a father at sea, and when the baby daughter's ringlet came from home it was bright red and father Quigley was very proud. Karl Kawa was a married machinist from Buffalo who had made a little model of the house he planned to build back home; the roof came off so that he could look inside...
...Duncan Norton-Taylor got home to give a finis to his book which every fighter wants as a finis to his war: "... the bus was jammed with a weekend crowd going down to Rehoboth and Ocean City. There had been a long drought and the cedars along the highway were pale with dust blown from the cornfields of Talbot County, Wye Mills, Longwood. It was nighttime and our headlights laid a path along the narrow road which wound around the woods and farms. Easton-Harrison Street. Peg and the girls were standing on the sidewalk in the dim light which...