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Most of the 21 damaged ships, repaired at sea, were soon back in action. As the crippled Pittsburgh limped toward port, the radio brought a message from one of the ships: "Have sighted a suburb of Pittsburgh and have taken it in tow." The Pittsburgh's bow went home...
...during the 82-day battle. They went to "general quarters" 150 times. The picket linemen's spirit was set down for history in a message sent by one little ship in April: "Have been hit by two suicide planes; shot down the third; am taking damaged destroyer in tow...
...planes buzzed out of the overcast. Escorting warships, deployed around the dead Franklin, fought them off and fought the Franklin's fires. It was now past noon. The Franklin was still belching smoke and beginning to list heavily when the cruiser Pittsburgh finally succeeded in taking her in tow. At three knots the convoy started crawling away from the shores of Japan, the Franklin yawing and staggering in her agony. Men went to work to correct her 13° list. Hydraulic controls for counter-flooding were out, but Downes and his men put on rescue breathers and groped their...
Colonel Sagmoen soon had his captive in tow-a thin, nervous man, balding at 37 and trimly dressed in a pin-striped business suit. The American growled: "You bastards started this war and we'll show you who's finishing it!" He ordered the prisoner into the back of his jeep...
Once started, the take-offs had to be run with stopwatch accuracy. At ten-second intervals the tow planes moved in from the sides, gently tautened the line, then poured on power and roared down the runway and off into the sky. By then the day had dawned clear and bright, with a near-perfect ten-mile wind...