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straight for us with phosphorous wake is thot. to be a torpedo! Guns closed up. A Turret's crew "Stand by". But the next order "Fire" doesn't come. Moon rising shows us no worse foe than a bank of clouds. We all laugh & go to bed. Hizem chased some clouds this morning. Weather lovely. We all lie full length on F'cstle looking up into the stars.
Dec 10 During the night news comes of smashing of the G. Fleet, by Admiral Sturdee's squadron off Falkland Is. Alas! For the frailty of human judgements. I believe Jap. Admiral was convinced that the G's were within 200 miles of us, & we were in the 1st degree of vigilance. We feel that that victory belongs rightfully to us, & that we have been robbed off it. We drove them out of the Pacific, & in the vast stretch of waters we guarded, the G's did no harm. Ours is only a small affair, but it has cost some 3500 lives, friend & foe to straighten it out. Everybody listless & fed up as a result.