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...Burke Murphy 32 32 22 54 11 32 Paul DiFrancesco 32 15 37 52 7 60 Derek Ladouceur 30 6 33 39 5 16 Derek McLaughlin 32 9 16 25 1 32 Scott Stevens 32 13 12 25 0 14 Jeff Kungle 31 10 13 23 7 36 Matt Oikawa 31 9 9 18 2 18 Troy Creurer 32 2 14 16 1 24 Bob Prier 29 9 6 15 0 27 Ryan Cassidy 29 6 8 14 2 34 Thomas Cullen 32 5 9 14 4 78 John Poapst 32 4 10 14 0 48 Shawn Allard...
...same strain ran through the other appointments. Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, who had accomplished nothing in ten months as chief of naval staff, was kicked upstairs to an ornamental advisory role; fat, ugly Admiral Soemu Toyoda moved up from commander in chief of the fleet to chief of naval staff, opening the way for Ozawa. And into Ozawa's place, as vice chief of staff, came Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi, who was the "originator as well as one of the persons who perfected the air special-attack [Kamikaze] corps...
...heavily escorted convoy. They sank four cargo ships, three naval escort craft, four barges. Then, for the first time in the new island campaign, U.S. surface ships closed in for the kill with their guns. They sank a large destroyer, a cargo ship, other miscellaneous items of Oikawa's auxiliary navy...
Guess Which, Oikawa. On the Bonin strike, Jap shore establishments caught it, too. From Muko Jima, 580 miles from Tokyo, all the way down the 80-mile chain, cruisers and destroyers thoroughly and thoughtfully shelled every Jap base that looked worthwhile...
...Admiral Oikawa could try to figure it out. Was this just a raid? Or did it mean that Americans were dropping their plan to take the Philippines in favor of a drive up through the Bonins? Or were they going to fight both ways at once...