Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page 30 shows how the pitched battles of the Solomons have favored the U.S. Not included there, however, are the losses which were suffered in the Solomons period when U.S. forces were misused in sluggish defensive tactics-when the Wasp was sunk and several other ships damaged, in mere routine patrolling...
...your account of the sinking of the Wasp (TIME, Nov. 2) you report that one of our returning pilots said, "I thought I saw a crowd of men standing on the after part of the flight deck, but they may have been wounded left there or dead...
...sake of the families of Wasp men reported missing, please allow me to say no wounded were left. Captain Sherman was the last man to leave the flight deck and shortly thereafter he came to the fantail of the ship where some of us remained. We were then evacuating the last of the wounded from the hangar deck areas. None of us will ever forget the courageous and unselfish conduct of our shipmates in caring for the wounded, both on the ship and in the water. The quotation is misleading. When the last of us left the ship, the wounded...
LIEUT. MERRITT F. WILLIAMS Chaplain U.S.S. Wasp Washington...
Four days before the Navy announced the sinking of the Wasp, the small-town Plymouth (Ind.) Pilot scooped the world by casually breaking the news in a front-page interview with a home-town survivor of the lost carrier. The sailor was abruptly whisked away by Naval authorities. Elderly Pilot Editor Samuel E. Boys got a blistering Navy rebuke. Possibly Sam Boys's slip expedited Navy's official communiqué admitting the loss of the Wasp. But the hopeful impression got around that Navy's relatively fresh report about the Wasp (coming only 41 days after...