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Just seven days after Hersey got home, the Navy released the news of the sinking of the carrier Wasp. Hersey was on one of the ships in the Wasp's task force when the carrier was sunk, and he wrote the eyewitness story of the sinking in TIME, this week...
Lieut, Robert M. Campbell A-V (S) USNR, who was on the aircraft carrier "Wasp" when it was sunk last month, will address a closed meeting of the Naval Society of the NROTC this evening...
WASHINGTON--A Japanese submarine torpedoed and sank the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Wasp Sept. 15 while she was covering reinforcement operations in the Solomons, but 90 per cent of her personnel was saved, the Navy disclosed tonight...
Three torpedo hits which struck near the Wasp's magazines and gasoline tanks set off a series of explosions and fires which soon made the carrier helpless...
...Wasp, one of the smallest and newest American carriers, was the third carrier lost in the Battle of the Pacific. The others were the Lexington, lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea last May, and the Yorktown, sunk in the Battle of Midway last June...