25- _____ 5" fired up to GQ this morning after chow _ Cond II was set for bombardment. Japs drove Amer. back yesterday. We open bombardment with the heaviest yet on town which Japan took yesterday _ we fired a few hundred 6" & also a few hundred 5" into town._____ Planes located big Amm. dump on island & ships [k]nocked it out. we help. Our planes hit this end of island at (11.00 AM) & at (1 PM.)
____ (#35 BB New York came in to N_______ bay to help us out _ also still here are
__ -1 BB _______ (2-CA)
USS Colorado __ USS Salt Lake City
_____________ USS Frisco
& DDs- 695 & 792 & one other DD.
(DDs sunk in this operation so far are Halligan, Bush, Colhoun
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DD (destroyer) 695 was the USS Cooper.
DD 792 was USS Callaghan.
The Halligan hit a mine on March 26 and the entire forward part of the ship was blown off. (Photo shows the Halligan after the blast).
On April 6, the Bush was hit by a kamikaze whose bomb exploded in the forward engine room. 4 more planes finished off the ship. The Colhoun, in coming to the Bush's rescue, was attacked 5 times by 15 planes, 3 of which hit her.
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