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...bomber's moon on four successive nights guided aircraft of General Douglas MacArthur's command over the jungle-clothed mountains of New Guinea to Rabaul. On one raid a Jap cruiser was hit. On another a warship was driven aground. Two other warships and numerous cargo vessels also felt the sting of night raiders striking at the best deep-water harbor in the New Guinea-New Britain area...
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...
...fleet remained discreetly below the horizon, while Tokyo hinted at a great, running sea battle. The only explanation of why it never developed: the formidable appearance of the South Pacific fleet frightened the Japanese off. Said an official bulletin to the disappointed crew of a U.S. warship last week: "After finding out what they were up against, they withdrew...
...very small French fleet had gone out to fight them. It was worse than suicide. In less than half an hour after they sailed out of the harbor they were all put out of action with a frightful loss of life-all for nothing. One of the French warships returned all afire, and was run ashore making a horrible sight all that evening. Many were afraid there would be heavy air raids that night. One very kindly Frenchman came to me that evening and said, "Well, I hope your countrymen will permit us to sleep tonight." They...
...certainly will stand out in my memory more than ever, as it is now my second Armistice Day. The afternoon before planes came over, amidst a hail of machine-gun fire and antiaircraft, and dive-bombed a remaining French warship which apparently had been shelling some of the American forces some distance from the town. The dive-bomb attacks evidently finished her. Some days later I saw her from a distance, down by the stern with a list. The evening of Nov. 10 was an anxious one, for while we had no really definite news it was perfectly clear that...