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...battered Boise came home for repairs last week, the U.S. people could add Mike Moran's seven words to the small and oft-repeated catalogue of their heroes' laconic battle phrases. They were better words, perhaps, than John Paul Jones's "I have not yet begun to fight," better, certainly, than Commodore George Dewey's pale and measured, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." They mirrored the tempo of 1942's savage fighting, they caught the spirit of a confident U.S.: the bigger they are the harder they fall...
...decks of adjoining ships to wave and yell at her, thousands of workmen set up a cheer. A bosun piped lean Admiral Ernest J. King, COMINCH, aboard; he grimly surveyed the damage, examined the six Japanese flags painted beneath her bridge. Said he: "Well done." Said grinning Captain Mike Moran: "She's a grand ship...
Twenty-seven Minutes of Hell. Mike Moran had always gone on the theory that a light cruiser like the Boise, when caught in heavy action, was expendable. Try to stay afloat for 15 minutes and do all the damage you can. The Navy's communique told how the Boise had done its damage...
...Boise made out six enemy ships [the first spotter had missed one]. . . . Captain Moran laid his main batteries on the leading heavy ship . . . then he gave the order to fire. In a matter of seconds the first target was lit up. ... The Boise's guns hit her again & again for four minutes and she sank, going down by the bow with her screws still turning...
...five-inch guns out of action. But in short order the enemy, which had been burning very brightly, exploded violently several times and was not seen again. . . . For two minutes the Boise had no target. Then fires were observed burning on an enemy destroyer. For two minutes Captain Moran's guns hit her and she disappeared." Finally a Jap destroyer opened deadly fire, but the Boise disposed of her with the help of other U.S. ships...