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This did not mean that Vandegrift's men had crippled the Japanese Army or air power. It did mean that U.S. forces had withstood their first big test, even though the Japs had tried desperately to rout them. It did not mean that the Japs would give up without having more tries at the growing U.S. forces on Guadalcanal. Last week they came back with eleven destroyers. Dive-bombers and torpedo planes, aided by U.S. surface vessels, sank one, probably another, and damaged three...
...rout assumed gigantic proportions, Brown removed Burditt, who caged nine of twelve fouls, and his cohorts, and the second five took over. Don Lutze played his usual strong defensive game, and Hugh Hyde's pivot shots in the Crimson's double-bucket system began to find the range later in the contest...
...rout takes place as scheduled, Coach Chase should flood the rink with substituted before the evening is over. A second trio of Johnny Burton, Al Everts, and George Harding will spell the first line when needed, and Bill Apthorp and Earl Acker will relieve Mechem and Paine...
...developed at week's end. The Russians had isolated Velikie Luki; they had broken three rail lines and had put four German infantry divisions and one tank division to rout. But, compared to the Stalingrad offense, the Rzhev action was so far only a knocking against the German...
...battle flag with the white letters DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry outsailed and outgunned the British on Erie. On Champlain Captain Thomas MacDonough anchored his ships in such an advantageous position that when the British tried to attack him, he put them to rout without even moving. These two engagements gave the U.S. the necessary naval superiority on the lakes and won the war. U.S. casualties: 79 killed, 154 wounded...