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Moment of Glory. But the Salt Lake City rose to her most heroic moment for a new skipper, Captain Ernest G. ("Shorty") Small, on the night of Oct. 11-12. That night she was hunting destroyers which had been reinforcing the Japs on Guadalcanal. She found more: six cruisers, six destroyers, a transport and auxiliaries. First, her ten guns set a light cruiser ablazing. Twenty rounds from her crack batteries were enough to finish a heavy cruiser, blowing up its entire midsection. Other U.S. warcraft and the Salt Lake City joined fire to sink one of the auxiliaries. Then...
...First a freighter was sunk, next a troop-jammed transport, then a tanker; finally, with the Wahoo's last torpedo, a second freighter. The sweep was clean. Later the Wahoo, its supply of torpedoes gone, had to let another convoy pass unharmed. Said Lieut. Commander Dudley W. Morton, skipper of the broom-flaunting Wahoo: ''When you have no torpedoes you sure feel naked...
Missing at Sea. Lieut. Thomas Sargent La Farge, 38, of the Coast Guard Reserve, mural painter, grandson of the late Painter John La Farge, cousin of Writer Oliver La Farge; somewhere in the Atlantic. He was skipper of the Coast Guard cutter Natsek, presumed by the Navy to be lost after being unheard of for "several weeks...
Lieutenant Commander William J. ("Gus") Widhelm, U.S.N., was the skipper of Scouting Eight (dive-bombers) and the bigheart of the Hornet. Gus always kept five dollars in nickels so he could buy everybody cokes in the wardroom after evening general quarters. He could play badminton on the hangar deck better than anyone else. He had better luck at Bingo in the ready room than anyone else. There was always a wisecrack on his tongue, but he was a flyer's flyer. George Stokely, his radio man and gunner, called him "the crazy flying...
Casually, in passing, Skipper Bruton remarked that he had put two torpedoes into a Japanese carrier. Casually the Navy passed the remark. Those two torpedoes, which at the least forced a repair period of nearly two months, had made a great difference at a time when the balance of available carrier power leaned heavily in Japan's favor...