BATTLESHIP’S FIRE POWER
(Received October 3, 9.20 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 2.
The Navy has identified the battleship which shot down 32 Japanese planes offi Santa Cruz Island on October 16, 1942, and sank three cruisers off Save Island on November 14, 1942, as the South’ Dakota, commanded by Rear-Admiral Thomas Gatch.
The Navy explained that her identity, had not previously been disclosed because she was the first of a new class of battleships bearing new armament and greatly increased fire-power. It added that if the Japanese had known she was the South Dakota, it would have given them valuable information about the new class. The South Dakota’s sister ships are thef
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 7, 4 October 1943, Page 5
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111BATTLESHIP’S FIRE POWER Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 7, 4 October 1943, Page 5
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