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...took the worst beating given any convoy in World War II. The destroyers first shelled and torpedoed three Jap transports. One blew up. Another sank. A third listed, apparently was sinking when the destroyers withdrew. They returned, with U.S. cruisers. Shell and torpedo fire sank five more transports. A U.S. submarine torpedoed, probably sank a Jap aircraft carrier. U.S. bombers sank two transports, shot down five of twelve Jap fighters. Dutch bombers hit two Jap cruisers, five transports, a destroyer, a Jap warship which looked like a battleship. A Dutch submarine sank a Jap destroyer...
...Withdrew the nomination of Minnesotan David J. Winton as Minister to New Zealand, at Winton's request...
...retreat went on the British learned to destroy bridges, roads, stockpiles. Commandos were sown thicker behind enemy lines. But the main body still retreated. At some points troops withdrew as much as 50 miles a day in good order...
...columns of smoke rose. The U.S. Army had burned its gasoline dumps. It fell back in orderly fashion through villages where the Filipino civilians cheered and showed the "V" with their fingers. The Jap threw an armored spearhead east toward the islands' summer capital at Baguio. U.S. forces withdrew to save damage to the Philippines' most beautiful city...
...table talk among Army and Navy people. From a wharf a few miles from the Navy Yard, Jap fishermen in motorboats put out to follow the fleet in battle practice. By night they often turned up inside the deadline around Pearl Harbor's mouth, hissed apologies and withdrew when they were hailed by the patrol destroyer...