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...dusk, a Japanese warship appeared on the horizon. The men in the boats were uncertain whether it was a destroyer or a cruiser. Instantly, the small boats' engines were stilled: the four boats lay low. The warship passed MacArthur by. No more patrolling Japs appeared. No Japs spotted the boats from...
...Java. Of five U.S. destroyers referred to in the communiqué, only one was reported lost. The Houston was the only cruiser of at least 52 which the Navy admitted losing in any theater. Comforting to Navy men was one point which seemed academic to laymen: of all the warship losses in the battle of Java, not one was attributed to air attack...
...including a U.S. carrier identified by the Japanese as the Yorktown. Correspondent Francis McCarthy of the U.P. was on a heavy cruiser. "Only the term 'mass suicide' can describe the fate of the seven bombers that made up the first attacking wave," he wrote. "They approached this warship from starboard slightly astern at an estimated altitude of 8,000 to 10,000 feet...
First U.S. warship ever torpedoed in her own coastal waters, the Jacob Jones was the second U.S. destroyer named for the Commodore Jacob Jones who captured the British brig Frolic in the War of 1812. Her predecessor was the only U.S. destroyer lost to enemy action in World War I: in the winter of 1917 she was torpedoed 400 miles out of Brest by U-boat Commander Hans Rose, who hit her at 3,000 yards, the longest successful torpedo shot on record. The Navy, which does not believe in ill omens, will no doubt soon launch a sleek...
...gold-braided bigwigs of the U.S. Navy. Last week a rawboned, scrannel-necked Texan was busy cutting through those knots with a vengeance. As new production boss of the Navy, Vice Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson had the tremendous job of getting material for the U.S. Fleet's gigantic warship and airplane program. He had no time for bureaucratic nonsense...