_____ By morning news we have lost 3000 tenth Army troops killed & missing 12,000 wounded. Navy lost 3,900 killed & missing with 3,750 wounded so it goes to show the Navy is losing more than the Army in this operation.
_____ We also [read] that the USS Franklin had lost 1000 killed & wounded in a raid on Japen, when she was hit by Japs planes 60 miles off Japen _ she got back to states by herself.
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USS Franklin: On March 19, the aircraft carrier Franklin was hit by 2 bombs which started huge fires that set off more explosions. Photo shows the attack. 724 were killed, 265 wounded. The Franklin was the most heavily damaged carrier in the war but somehow, with a skeleton crew and only one stop at Pearl Harbor, she managed to sail back the 12,000 miles back to her home port of New York. Joe read about it after she arrived home.
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