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...PT Corner," an austere office in the sprawling Navy building, officers and their civilian helpers could afford to grin. The returns were all in. Their charges, the skittering, mighty midgets that the Navy calls motor torpedo boats, had well and truly proved their worth. In the Philippines they had shown themselves first-class weapons in a last-ditch fight. In the Solomons they had proved more: that they were indispensable in the defense of any beachhead...
...Navy had a new PT (see cut), stouter and better armed than the "expendables" that made Navy legend in the Philippines and off Guadalcanal. But more important to PT Corner was the fact that big-ship men now recognized the thunder-throated little craft as something more than a nuisance to maintain...
Before he could send his four boats into the attack the darkness split apart. In the flare of big guns, the PT men saw what they had run into. Back of the destroyers were a battleship, three cruisers, at least seven destroyers...
...swiftness of their run, the PTs sank one destroyer, damaged two. Again the Jap task force turned back. From that night's work, three PTs did not return. But, they had added the last figure to an imposing column: in less than four months in the Solomons, PT Corner's high-speed craft had sunk or damaged more than 250,000 tons of Japanese shipping...
...Navy brought the toll up to date with an announcement of losses between Jan. 29 and Feb. 4. U.S.: the twelve-year-old 9,050-ton cruiser Chicago, the destroyer De Haven, three PT boats, 22 planes; Japan: two destroyers, four more probably sunk, 60 planes, plus eight more probables...