BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: They Came, They Saw

Reports of a major naval engagement in the South Pacific, current for the past three weeks, dissolved into a story of they came, they saw, they changed their minds.

Early this month U.S. warships in the Solomons were ordered to prepare for a knockdown, drag-out fight.

Actually all the Japs attempted was to intercept a convoy and to evacuate their own officers and technicians from Guadalcanal. The fighting consisted entirely of air attacks on surface vessels rather than warship slugging it out against warship. The heavy cruiser Chicago was damaged January 29 and sunk in a second attack the next day....

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