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Actually all the Japs attempted was to intercept a convoy and to evacuate their own officers and technicians from Guadalcanal. The fighting consisted entirely of air attacks on surface vessels rather than warship slugging it out against warship. The heavy cruiser Chicago was damaged January 29 and sunk in a second attack the next day. An unnamed destroyer was sunk by dive bombers February 1. The Japs lost two destroyers sunk; four destroyers probably destroyed; six other destroyers, one corvette and two cargo ships damaged...
Lieutenant Bodell, who was commissioned through the Harvard Naval R.O.T.C., served on the Wasp from September 18, 1941 until it was sunk by submarines last September...
...Reconnaissance has made the Jap aware of the great increases in Admiral William Halsey's forces east of Australia. This week Navy Minister Shigetaro Shimada said that Jap planes had spotted a huge U.S. task force off Rennell Island, south of Guadalcanal. (He claimed that torpedo planes had sunk two battleships and three cruisers...
Shipping is Japan's first vulnerability, but the weakness is so far only potential. The Japanese merchant marine on Dec. 7, 1941 amounted to about 6,000,000 gross tons. Since then the Allies have sunk 170 Japanese bottoms, probably sunk 18, damaged 80. Altogether about 1,250,000 tons have been destroyed. But these sinkings have been largely offset by Jap seizures, requisitions and purchases-such as the huge coastwise fleets of British firms in China, Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Butterfield & Swire. Old ships which have had to be broken up have probably been at least partly replaced...
...Power. The stirring autumn battles in the Solomons have given the impression that the Japanese Navy has been whittled unmercifully. Indeed, since war's beginning, 104 Jap warships have been claimed sunk, plus 22 probably sunk. Of these perhaps 25 were cruisers and more than 50 were destroyers, whittling the Japs in these vital categories to about 25 and 85 respectively. However, little is known of the Japanese replacement program. U.S. production ought by 1944 to give the U.S. definite naval superiority over Japan; but the fact is that at this moment Japan still enjoys at least equal naval...