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...Approach. Early in the week General MacArthur's bombers flew over the northern Solomons and reported the Jap convoy steaming toward Guadalcanal-"packed to the gunwales. . . . We were never able to view the entire thing at one time." There were other harbingers of a big attack. One day 35 dive-bombers screened by 17 Zeros attacked Guadalcanal's Henderson Field. Next day 31 Jap planes, 23 of them carrying torpedoes, tried to hit Navy forces that were shelling Jap positions. U.S. Wildcats shot down...
...Japs' mighty convoy sped on. Their naval forces bore down from the north; transports, assembled at Buin and Rabaul, sailed on the right flank...
...Navy Comes Through (RKO-Radio). This run-of-the-mine slambanger comes through hell on three levels (sea, air and subsea) and large quantities of high water (the North Atlantic) while telling the simple story of the Sybil Gray, a munitions-laden laggard from a United Nations convoy. It comes through the mutual animosities of Chief Petty Officer Pat O'Brien and disgraced, re-enlisted Sailor George Murphy so predictably that by the picture's end they are brothers-in-law (with the help of Nurse Jane Wyatt). It also comes through at the seams, so abundantly that...
...destroyers are now a critical U.S. category. In actual numbers, the U.S. probably has the edge in destroyers and is somewhere near even in cruiser strength. But the Atlantic fleet, stripped and stripped though it has been, still requires an important proportion of the available total. The long convoy lines of the Pacific suck up more. Result: the Navy is hard put to find enough cruisers and destroyers for task-force duty, screening carriers and battleships, raiding enemy concentrations. That is one reason why the loss of the Astoria, Vincennes and Quincy was serious, why the U.S. showed...
...with coastwise tankers after two years, Seaman Federick Herman of Fayetteville, N.Y. had signed on for the Atlantic run. His thought that Sunday morning, when the alarm bell rang, was: "Here I am on a Liberty ship jammed to the gunwales with Russian supplies in the biggest convoy the British have tried to punch through. So the Germans will put on their biggest show." He ran on deck...