Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1943 — Page 14

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“SALT LAKE CITY

“A SHIP OF LEGEND

Now It Can Be Told:

Our Oldest Heavy Cruiser Was

An Unsung Hero of Second Battle of ~ Savo Battle in Solomons.

‘ Copyright, 1943, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News,’ Ine.

PEARL HARBOR, Feb." 6 (Delayed).—She’s the oldest

of our heavy cruisers.

Before she underwent a recent overhaul, much

fighting equipment was considered antiquated and outmoded. Yet in 28 minutes of bloodcurdling night action- she helped bag a Japanese heavy cruiser, a light cruiser, an auxiliary and several destroyers.

At the height of this melee she interposed herself between the enemy and another American eruiser which was being badly hit and sank the Jap assaulter; She herself came out of the fray with ‘comparatively minor damage. She is the U. 8. S. Salt Lake City ‘—tirst of our “treaty cruisers,” one of two ships of the Pensacola class of 1024, and in commission since 1929, . Only now does it: become possible to emphasize the role she played in $he second battle of Savo island— generally recognized as a vital early turning point in the struggle for the Solomons. Other American ships : in that action gave excellent accounts of ~ themselves. One—the light. cruiser Boise, was identified shortly after the battle. She went back to the gtates for repairs. When she put in at Philadelphia she got a tremendous, and well-deserved ovation: But, for security reasons, nothing could be said then about the Salt Lake City and how she shielded the Boise from possible annihilation.

Four Cruisers Sunk

In the first battle of Savo, Aug. 8-9, the Japs had caught four allied ‘eruisers flatfooted, and sank them with their opening salvos. The Japs. paid for this with heavy losses. Strategically, even this first Savo engagement is considered an American victory by the experts, or the ground -that the Japs did not succeed in the main purpose of disrupting our landing operations on Guadalcanal. But it was a severe tactical defeat, and did not have * & good effect on American morale. After the first battle of Save the Japs had taken to running reInforcements into . the northwest gorner of Guadalcanal by night. Fast destroyer transports covered ‘by cruisers—‘the Bougainville express”—came down to put big deck loads of troops on the beach near Cape Esperance, retiring again beIc e daylight.

Our Planes Powerless

Our plane defenses, not yet very well organized, were powerless to prevent this. The task force of which ‘the Boise and Salt Lake City were a part, that ight, had been organized as our first major effort to hurl the Bougainville express off the rails. The force was led by Rear Admiral Norman Scott of Indianapolis, gince killed in the sinking of the cruiser Atlanta. The force planned its approach so as to catch the transports and their covering cruisers en route, or while unloading their human cargo on the Guadalcanal beaches. With this in mind, they ran close to the big island. The Salt Lake City Had a bad accident running past the big island. One of her reconnaissance planes caught fire as it was catapulted, blazing up so as to illuminate the area for miles around. Had the Jap

She let the Jap close the range from 9000 yards to 5000 yards before she fired two 10-gun salvos of eight-

inch. On the second the Jap blew up in a great reddish yellow sheet of flame 300 feet square and went down in a great hissing of smoke and spray. Her third target was believed to be a troop transport. Seven salvos —10 eight-inch shells—were pumped into the Jap before he lunged down by the head. Now came a report that three Jap destroyers were running in fast to deliver torpedo attacks. The Salt Lake City took the one nearest her. She caught him with a single salvo of her 10 guns at only 1500 yards. The destroyer disappeared instantaneously from the face of the sea. It was midnight now. There was a brief lull, while the Americans hunted for fresh targets. Except for the destroyers, one of which was so badly damaged she sank the next

day, none of the American ships = suffered much damage until after |=

the lull in the firing at midnight. Suddenly as the Salt Lake City pumped deliberate salvos into the

burning light cruiser, first hit, she |= bécame aware that “another Jap|= heavy cruiser appearing suddenly |Z

out of nowhere, had closed with the Boise and was slugging her mercilessly. As she turned hard to starboard to avoid torpedoes, the Salt Lake City, to avoid ramming her, turned hard in to the position she had vacated, squarely in the path of the punishing Jap fire,

Fired Only Once

The Jap got to fire one. salvo. One shell penetrated one of the

Salt Lake City’s forward fire rooms, flooded the fireroom with hundreds: of gallons of oil, and started a bad |=

fire. But before the Jap could fire again the American had fired her own batteries. The Jap fell silent after this opening salvo from the Salt Lake City. She pumped four more into him before he sank. It was a quarter after midnight, and the action was over. All the Jap ships had either been sunk, or had retreated and escaped in the darkness, or were blazing furiously. Some days later the Salt Lake City put in here for repairs and an overhaul. - No bands blared, no sirens blew, as she slipped up to her pier. Eagerly, her people read in mainland papers the account of the Boise’s noisy welcome on the coast. This was not resented. The Boise was a grand ship, they knew, and had put up a gloriously aggressive and effective fight. But, at least throughout the fleet itself, the Salt Lake City gets the credit due her. Her gunnery performance that black night is a legend.

of her|

These Kaydettes, dance team, will appear on the program to be given in connection with the Indiana state guard's battalion dance Saturday night at the N. Pennsylvania st. armory. Admission will be free to guardsmen in uniform and to the “Gen. Weimar, class” of new recruits, to be inducted that evening.

18. HOOSIERS ON ~ WOUNDED LIST

Some Have Recovered and Returned to Duty in Africa.

Sixteen army officers and enlisted men from Indiana are among the 440 men reported by the war department as wounded in action in the African area since early November, 1942. Some of the men have recovered and returned to duty: The Hoosiers wounded are Pvt. Gerald Angell Jr. of East Chicago;

“| Sergt. Chris Brown of Grandview,

Technician Fifth Grade Herbert O. Butt of Union City, First Lieut. James M. Curry of Ft. Wayne, Pvt. John H. Czuk of South Bend, Second Lieut. Charles L. Davis of Bloomington, Pvt. Lemural E. Kerr of New Harmony, Pfc. Robert L. Metzler of

Technician Fifth Grade John Ww,

Ensign Mary: ‘Richmond of ‘the|the v1 Motners! WAVES recruiting station here will guests. ne

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Morgan of Austin, Sergt. William A. Nightingale of Bruceville, Pfe. John K. Pickett of Crawfo: e, Corp. Thurman L. Ridge of Deuchars, Sergt. Morris S. Schill of Crothersville, Pvt. Woodrow W. Summers of Terre Haute, and Pvt. Alex A. Toth of South Bend.

FROHLICH TO SPEAK J.+E. Frohlich, manager of the Indianapolis district, WPB, will speak at Washington day exercises of Pike township school Monday.

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