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WASHINGTON--Eight Jap destroyers trying to blast their way through the American blockade with reinforcements and supplies for the starving enemy garrison on Guadalcanal were attacked by U.S. motor torpedo boats which hit one vessel and scored three possible hits on two others, the Navy said today...
...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...
...dusk they maneuvered into the middle of a coastwise convoy of six cargo ships and three small naval vessels. Away went the sub's torpedoes and down went two Jap merchantmen. Klakring let his crew take a look through the periscope at "this very pretty sight." When the other Jap ships, panic-stricken, turned and raced for the shore, Klakring surfaced and gave chase. He dogged one ship into a cove and plumped a torpedo into her middle. It was a lucky hit at long range. But, said Klakring, a soft-spoken Marylander, "If I had missed...
...Only 105 Jap planes-probably from two carriers-were required to defeat the U.S. Navy & Army, There were, the Navy estimated, 21 torpedo planes, 48 dive-bombers, 36 horizontal bombers...
WASHINGTON--American torpedo planes and dive bombers, blasting the seventh Jap invasion against Guadalcanal, sank an enemy cruiser or destroyer, set fire to three other warships and shot down 10 aircraft last Thursday at a cost of only three planes, the Navy disclosed today...