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Hanson W. Baldwin, most temperate of military commentators and an Annapolis graduate himself, let go a full salvo at the Navy. It hit where it hurt: smack on the Navy's big E (for efficiency...
...Shot. The decisive Battle of Guadalcanal began in earnest that night. The Helena was the first to sight the enemy ships. A Jap cruiser slashed the darkness with her searchlight, caught the Helena, opened fire. The Helena was already on the target. She fired from the hip: a full salvo. The Jap burned like a torch, lighting the way for the U.S. destroyers. As the Jap cruiser began to sink, the Helena's secondary battery pounded down a destroyer...
...Japs began a withdrawal. One of their cruisers was slamming shells at the San Francisco, which had tangled with a Jap battleship and taken the salvo which killed Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan and her skipper, Medal-of-Honorman Cassin Young. The Helena sank the cruiser and a destroyer, shot up three other Jap ships. The U.S. beachhead in the Solomons was finally secure...
...loaded into the waiting anti-submarine patrol planes. Suddenly a little blaze sprang up on one of the trailers. A station fire engine dashed up in a brave, hopeless effort to halt the fire. But before it could go into action the 24 cordite-loaded charges exploded like a salvo of blockbusters in a blinding flash and shattering concussion. The toll: 25 dead*; 249 injured. The blast and fire wrecked a hangar and eight barracks, damaged other hangars filled with aircraft. Tight-lipped Navy and FBI men began their investigations...
...force was credited with sinking two Japanese cruisers," he said. "The Japanese had bracketed the ship I was on. The first salvo struck the water on one side and the second on another. We all took a long breath waiting for the third to hit us squarely but by that time the cruiser which had been firing at us was disabled. Several times we received scares when 1,000 pound aerial bombs and torpedoes just missed our ship...