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...these do not speak for Britain. Heavy bombers, tanks, guns, warships, workmen hammering out weapons and munitions, A.T.S. girls manning lonely searchlight posts, paratroopers fluttering down in practice maneuvers, tankmen butting machines through timbered obstacles, sentries pacing windswept beaches -these speak for the Britain...
First Sight, First 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...
...then that we picked up, in the beam of a searchlight, a ship's bow protruding from the quiet sea. The Admiral ordered a destroyer to investigate. For a long time the destroyer was silent, as she also threw a beam. The Admiral kept asking 'Who is it? Who is it? Acknowledge. Acknowledge...
...impatience was plain over the TBS ("talk-between-ships") loudspeakers on the bridges of the U.S. ships waiting in the dark. It seemed an unconscionable time before the destroyer, her searchlight still probing, answered: "I am sorry to report it is Five Zero...
...could never to any of us be just a postcard picture. ... It was something alive that played an important part in our existence. . . . It is a superb observation point, of course, and the Germans had placed a sound detector and searchlight at one place, and four of them had used the Cook's Hotel halfway up for observation and radio transmission...