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| | The Battleship Kongo |
 | | The result was disaster -- often called the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" for the ease with which green Japanese pilots in now obsolescent planes were shot down. |
 | | The old veteran of Pearl Harbor, the Coral Sea, and the Solomons, the aircraft carrier Shokaku, was sunk, and the new carrier Taiho, with an armored flight deck, was lost, in part because fumes from poorly refined aviation fuel exploded after a torpedo hit. |
 | | That the War was lost was then obvious to all -- even to Prime Minister Tojo, who resigned. |
| www.friesian.com /kongo.htm (6746 words) |
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