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KIRISHIMA and HIEI take up position to the rear of Kido Butai and steam eastward at 13 knots.
2 December 1941:
940 miles north of Midway Island. KIRISHIMA receives the coded signal "Niitakayama nobore (Climb Mt. Niitaka) 1208" from the Combined Fleet. It signifies that hostilities will commence on 8 December (Japan time).
4 December 1941:
The Striking Force reaches the rendezvous point (42N, 170E) and the warships refuel to capacity from the Supply Group's oilers.
7 December 1941: The
Attack on Pearl Harbor:
At 0630, BatDiv 3/1 launches their E8N Dave two-seat reconnaissance floatplanes to patrol south of the Striking Force. CruDiv 8 also launches picket floatplanes.
At 0755, the Striking Force's first wave of 189 aircraft (90 Type 97 Nakajima B5N2 Kate attack planes, 54 Type 99 Aichi D3A1 Val dive-bombers and 45 Type 0 Mitsubishi A6M2 Zeke fighters) led by Cdr (later Captain) Fuchida Mitsuo attack the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor and other military installations on Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.
About 0840, they are followed by a second wave of 171 aircraft (54 Kates, 81 Vals and 36 Zekes) led by LtCdr Shimazaki Shigekazu. By 0945, they retire towards their carriers.
During the attacks, the Striking Force sinks battleships USS ARIZONA (BB-39), CALIFORNIA (BB-44), OKLAHOMA (BB-37) and WEST VIRGINIA (BB-49) and damages MARYLAND (BB-46), NEVADA (BB-36), PENNSYLVANIA (BB-38) and TENNESSEE (BB-43) and other smaller ships. 2,335 American servicemen die in the attack, most on ARIZONA. After recovering all but 29 of its aircraft lost in the attack, the Striking Force departs Hawaiian waters towards Japan.
During the sortie KIRISHIMA receives serious damage after being swamped by successive waves.
24 December 1941:
KIRISHIMA arrives at Kure.
27 December 1941:
At Kure. Drydocked.
30 December 1941:
Undocked. Returns to Hashirajima.
8 January 1942:
BatDiv 3/1 departs Hashirajima for Truk with the Carrier Striking Force: CarDivs 1 and 5, CruDiv 8 and DesRon 1's light cruiser ABUKUMA and destroyers.
14 January 1942:
Arrives at Truk.
17 January 1942: - Operation "R" - The Invasions of Rabaul and Kavieng:
BatDiv 3/1 departs Truk with the Carrier Striking Force, CruDiv 8 and DesRon 1 for an area north of New Ireland. BatDiv 3/1 provides cover for the Striking Force's air attacks and distant support of the invasion forces.
23 January 1942:
Departs New Ireland area.
27 January 1942:
Returns to Truk. CarDiv 5's SHOKAKU detaches from the Carrier Striking Force for Japan.
1 February 1942:
BatDiv 3/1 departs Truk with the Carrier Striking Force: CarDiv 1, CarDiv 5's ZUIKAKU, CruDiv 8's CHIKUMA and DesRon 1 in pursuit of Vice Admiral (later Fleet Admiral) William F. "Bull" Halsey's (former CO of SARATOGA, CV-3) Task Force 8 (ENTERPRISE, CV-6) and Rear Admiral (later Admiral) Frank J. Fletcher's Task Force 17 (YORKTOWN, CV-5) reported to be attacking Wotje, Kwajalein, Jaluit, Makin, and Mili in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands.
4 February 1942:
BatDiv 3/1 and the Carrier Striking Force group are ordered to Palau. CarDiv 5's ZUIKAKU detaches via Truk for Japan to join SHOKAKU.
8 February 1942:
BatDiv 3/1, CarDiv 1, CHIKUMA and DesRon 1 arrive at Palau.
18 February 1942:
Bat Div 3 departs Palau for Staring (Teluk) Bay, near Kendari, Celebes (now Sulwasei).
21 February 1942:
BatDiv 3 arrives at Staring Bay. Vice Admiral (later Admiral) Kondo Nobutake (former CO of KONGO) CruDiv 4's ATAGO, MAYA and TAKAO and six destroyers also arrive and refuel. Vice Admiral (Admiral, posthumously) Nagumo Chuichi's (former CO of YAMASHIRO) First Air Fleet Striking Force ("Kido Butai") CarDiv 1's AKAGI and KAGA, CarDiv 2's HIRYU and SORYU and CruDiv 8's CHIKUMA and TONE, DesRon 1's light cruiser ABUKUMA with DesDiv 17's URAKAZE, ISOKAZE, TANIKAZE and HAMAKAZE and DesDiv 18's KASUMI, SHIRANUHI and ARIAKE arrives from their stike on Darwin, Australia and refuels.
25 February 1942:
BatDiv 3 departs Staring Bay in support of the Carrier Striking Force's attacks on Java.
1 March 1942:
S of Java. At 1154, one of KIRISHIMA's E8N2 floatplanes drops two 60-kg bombs on a fleeing Allied merchant.
250 miles SSE of Christmas Island. At 1550 (local), the Mobile Force is steaming at 16 knots at 14-25S, 106-50E, when one of AKAGI's combat air patrol fighters sights a "MARBLEHEAD-class" light cruiser (actually Lt Joshua J. Nix's EDSALL (DD-219) steaming about 30 kilometers behind the force.
At 1552, Vice Admiral Nagumo orders BatDiv 3/2 and CruDiv 8 to intercept the cruiser and destroy it. Vice Admiral Mikawa leads the chase from HIEI, flanked by heavy cruisers CHIKUMA (port) and TONE (starboard), leading KIRISHIMA.
At 1602, EDSALL is sighted from HIEI off port bow, 16 miles away. At 1603, CHIKUMA opens fire with her 8-inch guns at extremely long range. All her shots miss. EDSALL, damaged earlier by one of her depth charges, lays down a smokescreen and begins evasive maneuvers.
At 1616, HIEI opens fire with her 14-inch guns at a range of 27,900 yards, straddling the target, but not hitting it.
At 1620, HIEI signals: "All forces, charge!" The target is soon identified as a destroyer by lookouts from HIEI and CHIKUMA.
At 1655, HIEI and heavy cruisers check the fire without having scored a single hit. HIRYU launches eight and SORYU nine D3A1 "Val" dive bombers against EDSALL. Between 1657 and 1720 the destroyer receives several bomb hits, slowing her down and setting afire. EDSALL is enveloped in white smoke and slowly circling counterclockwise. KAGA's dive bombers are credited with five hits, SORYU's with three hits and HIRYU's with one direct hit on EDSALL.[2]
At 1718, KIRISHIMA, now heading NNE, joins the fight, opening fire from main and secondary guns at EDSALL. At 1720, HIEI opens fire from her main and secondary guns at a range of 19,400 yards. At 1730, both battleships are ordered to check fire. In all, HIEI fires 210 14-inch and 70 6-inch shells at EDSALL and KIRISHIMA fires 87 14-in and 62 6-in shells. At 1731, battered old destroyer EDSALL sinks by the stern at 13-45S, 106-47E.
During the engagement, KIRISHIMA fires 87 14-in and 62 6-in shells.
11 March 1942:
After the surrender of the Dutch East Indies, returns to Staring Bay.
11-25 March 1942:
At Staring Bay. BatDiv 3 refuels, then assumes 'standby alert'. After more than three months of continuous operations, the crews are allowed some rest and relaxation.
6 April 1942:
Bay of Bengal. At about 0600, the three ships of Kurita's Northern Group attack and sink the 5,381-ton Norwegian tanker ELSA. After 0730, KUMANO and SUZUYA and destroyer SHIRAKUMO attack a six-ship convoy and sink 4,986-ton American Export Line's EXMOOR (ex-CITY OF ST. JOSEPH), 9,066-ton British freighter MALDA, 7,718-ton British freighter AUTOCLYCUS and 2,441-ton British freighter SHINKUANG at 19N, 86E. Ozawa's cruisers also sink 6,622-ton British freighter INDORA and Captain J. H. Gregory's British India Line's 4,921-ton cargo ship SILKSWORTH. About 50 of SILKSWORTH's mostly Chinese crewmen survive.
13 April 1942:
By nightfall, the fleet passes Singapore and enters the South China Sea, bound for Japan.
15 April 1942:
Oiler NIPPON MARU refuels KIRISHIMA with 1,100 metric tons of fuel oil.
20 April 1942:
Early naval aviator Captain (Vice Admiral, posthumously) Iwabuchi Sanji (43)(former CO of KASHII) is appointed CO. Captain (later Rear Admiral) Yamaguchi is reassigned as the Chief of Staff of Vice Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo's First Southern Expeditionary Fleet (Malay Force) based at Singapore.
22 April 1942:
Arrives at Sasebo. Maintains standby alert.
11 May 1942:
At Sasebo. Drydocked. 25-mm AA guns Nos. 7 and 8 are relocated from the upper deck to the vicinity of the forward funnel to provide better arcs of fire.
20 May 1942:
21 May 1942:
Departs Sasebo.
23 May 1942:
Arrives at Hashirajima, then conducts battle training.
27 May 1942:
Rear Admiral Abe Hiroaki's (former CO of FUSO) Support Group, BatDiv 3, Section 2's KIRISHIMA and HARUNA depart Hashirajima with Vice Admiral Nagumo's First Mobile Force, Carrier Strike Force's CarDiv 1's AKAGI and KAGA, CarDiv 2's HIRYU and SORYU, CruDiv 8's CHIKUMA and TONE and DesRon 10's light cruiser NAGARA and 11 destroyers.
4 June 1942: Operation
"MI" - The Battle of Midway:
KIRISHIMA is steaming abreast with AKAGI on her starboard beam when the Strike Force is attacked by four USAAF torpedo-carrying Martin B-26 "Marauders" of the 69th Squadron, 38th Bombardment Group. Ten A6M "Zeke" fighters are sent to intercept them. KIRISHIMA helps to repel the attack, firing her main caliber guns. Two of the B-26s are shot down.
0825: LtCdr William H. Brockman in USS NAUTILUS (SS-168) fires a Mark 14 steam torpedo at KIRISHIMA from 4,500 yards but misses. He attempts to fire another torpedo but it malfunctions and never leaves the tube. KIRISHIMA opens fire with her starboard batteries unsuccessfully at the submarine's periscope. Light cruiser NAGARA counter-attacks NAUTILUS unsuccessfully with depth charges. KIRISHIMA departs the area at 25 knots.
1025: HARUNA is dive-bombed unsuccessfully by planes from USS YORKTOWN (CV-5), but during the next few minutes the carriers AKAGI, KAGA and SORYU are all hit and set afire by SDB dive-bombers from YORKTOWN and ENTERPRISE. Detached and north of the Kido Butai, undamaged carrier HIRYU launches 24 aircraft to attack the American carriers.
1220: HIRYU's D3A1 Val dive-bombers find and hit Rear Admiral (MOH '14/later Admiral) Frank J. Fletcher's (former CO of VERMONT, BB-20) flagship, USS YORKTOWN (CV-5), with two bombs that stop her dead in the water. After about an hour, YORKTOWN's damage control teams restore her power.
1442: A second strike by the last ten of HIRYU's B5N2 Kates sends two torpedoes into YORKTOWN and she again loses power. Later she is torpedoed by submarine I-168 and finally sinks on 7 June.
1658: Twenty-four SDB dive-bombers launched from ENTERPRISE, including 10 recovered from abandoned YORKTOWN, find HIRYU, hit her with four bombs and set her ablaze.
1730: Captain Iwabuchi is ordered to standby to tow HIRYU with KIRISHIMA. As night falls and HIRYU blazes, Iwabuchi grows concerned about the possibility of a submarine attack on his now illuminated battleship. He radios Nagumo for permission to abandon HIRYU.
1837: Nagumo orders Iwabuchi to rejoin NAGARA now the flagship after AKAGI was sunk.
5 June 1942:
That night, KIRISHIMA takes aboard an unknown number of survivors from carriers AKAGI, KAGA, SORYU and HIRYU who were rescued earlier by DesRon 10's destroyers.
14 June 1942:
Returns to Hashirajima.
9 July 1942:
Moves to Kure. Maintains standby alert.
14 July 1942:
KIRISHIMA and HIEI (F) are reassigned from the First Fleet to Vice Admiral Nagumo's Third Fleet in Rear Admiral Abe Hiroaki's new BatDiv 11. KIRISHIMA and HIEI's aircraft complement is upgraded: they receive one Aichi E13A1 "Jake" reconnaissance floatplane and two Mitsubishi Type F1M2 "Pete" floatplanes, tail codes CIII-x (in red) .
16 August 1942:
BatDiv 11's KIRISHIMA and HIEI depart Kure via Yokosuka towards Truk with a task group: CarDiv 1's SHOKAKU, ZUIKAKU, CarDiv 2's light carrier RYUJO, CruDiv 8's CHIKUMA and TONE, DesRon 10's light cruiser NAGARA and 11 destroyers. [3]
20-23 August 1942:
The CINC, Combined Fleet, Admiral (Fleet Admiral, posthumously) Yamamoto Isoroku (former CO of AKAGI) cancels a planned stop at Truk. The fleet refuels at sea from oilers while enroute towards Guadalcanal.
24 August 1942: The
Battle of the Eastern Solomons:
BatDiv 11 cruises northeast of Guadalcanal with the Carrier Strike Force, Mobile Force, Main Body: CarDiv 1, CruDiv 7's KUMANO and SUZUYA, CruDiv 8's CHIKUMA, Desron 10. Detached light carrier RYUJO is sunk by aircraft from Task Group 11's USS SARATOGA (CV-3). CarDiv 1 launches an air attack against Task Force 16's USS ENTERPRISE (CV-6) which is hit by three bombs but is not sunk. Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses" bomb CarDiv 1. SHOKAKU is slightly damaged by bomb fragments. KIRISHIMA is not damaged.
28 August 1942:
Arrives at Truk. Maintains standby alert.
30 August 1942:
BatDiv 11 arrives at Truk. Refuels from oiler TATEKAWA MARU.
10 September 1942:
BatDiv 11 sorties from Truk with Vice Admiral Nagumo Chuichi's Third Fleet: CarDiv 1's SHOKAKU, ZUIKAKU, ZUIHO, CruDiv 7's KUMANO and SUZUYA, CruDiv 8's CHIKUMA, DesRon 10's light cruiser NAGARA and 11 destroyers. The Third Fleet accompanies Vice Admiral (later Admiral) Kondo Nobutake's (former CO of KONGO) Second Fleet: Bat Div 3's KONGO, HARUNA, CruDiv 4's ATAGO, TAKAO and MAYA, CruDiv 5's HAGURO and MYOKO and DesRon 2 to an area north of the Solomon Islands.
15-17 September 1942:
At sea. The fleets refuel destroyers.
18-20 September 1942:
The Second and Third Fleets sortie towards the Solomons.
20 September 1942:
The fleets are ordered to return to Truk.
23 September 1942:
Arrives at Truk. Undergoes maintenance and conducts training. Maintains standby alert. Two floatplanes are landed, one Jake and one Pete.
11 October 1942:
BatDiv 11 departs Truk to attack U.S. forces off Guadalcanal with Rear Admiral Abe's Vanguard Force: CruDiv 7's SUZUYA, CruDiv 8's TONE and CHIKUMA, DesRon 10's light Cruiser NAGARA and eight destroyers. The Vanguard Force accompanies Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Kakuta Kakuji's (former CO of NAGATO) Air Group Force: CarDiv 2's HIYO, JUNYO, destroyers HAYASHIO and KUROSHIO. Abe and Kakuta's forces are followed by Nagumo's Carrier Strike Force, Main Body: CarDiv 1's SHOKAKU, ZUIKAKU and ZUIHO, cruiser KUMANO and eight destroyers.
12 October 1942:
East of the Solomon Islands. BatDiv 11's KIRISHIMA and HIEI and the Second and Third Fleets take up position to provide distant cover for Vice Admiral Kurita Takeo's (former CO of KONGO) BatDiv 3's KONGO and HARUNA that is detached with DesRon 2's light cruiser ISUZU and destroyers and proceeds to Guadalcanal.
14-15 October 1942:
BatDiv 11 maintains distant cover while KONGO and HARUNA bombard Henderson Field. The next night, Vice Admiral Mikawa's Eighth Fleet cruisers CHOKAI and KINUGASA bombard the airfield again.
23 October 1942:
650 miles north of Espirtu Santo. The Vanguard Force is sighted by a PBY "Catalina" patrol plane based in the Santa Cruz Islands.
25 October 1942:
After 1000 an AirSoPac PBY-5A "Catalina" spots the Vanguard Force. It is intercepted by two F1M2 Pete floatplanes from KIRISHIMA and chased away, receiving over 70 hits. The patrol plane is damaged, but finally escapes.
1450: The Vanguard Force is sighted heading north at 25 knots by six B-17s of the 11th Bombardment Group (Heavy) based at Espirtu Santo.
1510. The six B-17s bomb KIRISHIMA but score no hits.
26 October 1942: The
Battle of Santa Cruz:
0630: The Vanguard Force making 20 knots is reported by two Douglas "Dauntless" SDB dive-bombers of Air Group 10 from USS ENTERPRISE (CV-6).
0740: Kondo orders Abe's Vanguard Force to forego screening Nagumo's Carrier Striking Force and to close on an American carrier force sighted earlier by a Nakajima B5N Kate from ZUIKAKU.
The Vanguard Force is attacked by dive-bombers and torpedo planes from ENTERPRISE and HORNET (CV-8). Three SDB dive-bombers attack KIRISHIMA. She is not damaged, but several 1,000-lb. bombs hit CHIKUMA.
Nagumo and Kakuta launch air attacks that mortally damage HORNET. They also damage ENTERPRISE and light anti-aircraft cruiser SAN JUAN (CLAA-54). A 550-lb bomb hits new battleship SOUTH DAKOTA (BB-57). It jams her No. 1 turret in train and disables two of the three 16-inch rifles in her No. 2 turret.
30 October 1942:
The Vanguard Force returns to Truk, then maintains 'standby alert'.
1 November 1942:
BatDiv 11's Rear Admiral Abe Hiroaki is promoted to Vice Admiral.
2 November 1942:
Vice Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo (former CO of HARUNA) assumes command of the Third Fleet. Vice Admiral Nagumo is reassigned as the Commandant of the Sasebo Naval Station. Vice Admiral Kondo, Commander of the Second Fleet, is appointed the Deputy Commander of the Combined Fleet.
9 November 1942:
At 1643, Vice Admiral Kondo's Advance Force and Vice Admiral Abe Hiroaki's Volunteer Attack Force (the latter including BatDiv 11) depart Truk for Shortland.
10 November 1942:
At 0530, BatDiv 11 and DesDiv 27's SHIGURE, SHIRATSUYU and YUGURE depart the Shortland anchorage off Bougainville to execute Vice Admiral Kondo's planned landing of 14,500 men, heavy weapons and supplies of the IJA's 38th Infantry Division and the 8th Special Naval Landing Force on Guadalcanal. The twelve destroyers of Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Tanka Raizo's (former CO of KONGO) DesRon 2 will escort an 11-ship high-speed reinforcement convoy. The landing is to be preceded by another bombardment of Henderson Field. Part of Kondo's plan calls for DesDiv 27's destroyers to act as picket ships between Guadalcanal and the Russell Islands.
12 November 1942:
In the early morning, BatDiv 11 is joined by Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Kimura Susumu's (former CO of HARUNA) DesRon 10's light cruiser NAGARA (F) and destroyers AKATSUKI, AMATSUKAZE, IKAZUCHI, INAZUMA, TERUZUKI and YUKIKAZE that arrive from Truk.
1030: A B-17 heading towards Savo Island spots Abe's force. Two covering Mitsubishi A6M "Zeke" fighters, launched from a holding position north of Malaita Island by Vice Admiral Kakuta's carrier JUNYO, attempt unsuccessfully to intercept the bomber.
1530: Abe's force rendezvous with Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Takama Tamotsu's (former CO of HARUNA) DesRon 4 sweeping unit's ASAGUMO (F), HARUSAME, MURASAME, SAMIDARE and YUDACHI. Abe orders the destroyers to form a tight double half-ring formation as an anti-submarine measure. NAGARA follows with BatDiv 11 in column behind. The force proceeds south down the "Slot" at 18 knots.
HIEI catapults an F1M2 Pete reconnaissance floatplane. A heavy rainstorm begins that lasts several hours. The plane reports more than a dozen enemy warships off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal.
13 November 1942:The
First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal:
0000: Abe orders his force to reverse course and slow to 12 knots because of the weather.
0110: Abe orders BatDiv 11 to make their 14-inch main batteries ready to fire Type 3 shells.
0124: Captain Gilbert C. Hoover's USS HELENA's (CL-50) SG radar picks up a return at 28,000 yards, probably destroyer YUDACHI.
0125: Lookouts aboard HIEI sight Cape Esperance. Admiral Abe orders that preparations begin for the shelling of Henderson Field. Unknown to Abe, HELENA's radar picks up KIRISHIMA and battleship HIEI at 32,000 yards.
HELENA alerts Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan's (a former naval aide to President Roosevelt), Task Group 67.4 consisting of cruisers USS SAN FRANCISCO (CA-38)(F), PORTLAND (CA-33), ATLANTA (CL-51), JUNEAU (CL-52) and destroyers CUSHING (DD-376), LAFFEY (DD-459), STERETT (DD-407), MONSSEN (DD-436), FLETCHER (DD-445), O'BANNON (DD-450), AARON WARD (DD-483) and BARTON (DD-599).
0131: HELENA's radar picks up smaller returns, most probably Abe's destroyers.
Admiral Callaghan orders a northward turn in an attempt to cross the Japanese formation's "T", but the maneuver is executed too late.
0142: Cdr Kikkawa Kiyoshi's lead destroyer YUDACHI and HIEI's lookouts report sighting enemy warships only 9,000 meters away. Abe quickly orders BatDiv 11's gunnery officers to replace the Type 3 incendiary shells with Type 1 armor piercing shells.
YUDACHI almost collides with LtCdr Edward N. Parker's destroyer CUSHING (DD-376), leading four destroyers in the van of the American force, but not equipped with radar. YUDACHI goes full left rudder and veers off to port.
0150: HIEI and Cdr Takasuka Osamu's destroyer AKATSUKI switch on their searchlights and illuminate Captain Samuel P. Jenkins' ATLANTA. Abe's force commences a night gun battle with American cruisers and destroyers. ATLANTA and HELENA quickly shoot out AKATSUKI's probing searchlight. AKATSUKI is also hit by gunfire from Captain Cassin Young's (MOH at Pearl Harbor) SAN FRANCISCO and sinks with all hands.
Return fire from Japanese warships rains down on ATLANTA. In the confusion of the battle, SAN FRANCISCO mistakenly also fires on ATLANTA and hits her with about nineteen 8-inch shells. Rear Admiral Norman Scott, most of his staff, and many other crewmen are KIA. ATLANTA is then hit port side in the forward engine room by a torpedo, probably fired by LtCdr Terauchi Masamichi's destroyer INAZUMA. ATLANTA loses all but auxiliary diesel power. Without primary power, she cannot train and fire her guns and drifts out of control. She is forced to shift steering control to her steering engine room aft.0154: HIEI, passing SAN FRANCISCO on an opposite course, opens fire at about 2,500 yards. Her main and secondary armament shatter SAN FRANCISCO's superstructure. Rear Admiral Callaghan, three of his staff officers and skipper Captain Young are among those killed.
HIEI is only able to get off two salvos before she is hit by two 8-inch shells, most probably from SAN FRANCISCO. One shell is a dud, but the other penetrates HIEI's hull on the starboard quarter and the resultant flooding disables HIEI's steering gear. Vice Admiral Abe orders KIRISHIMA to detach from HIEI and head northward.
0200: Abe abandons his bombardment mission and withdraws from the battle.
During the battle, KIRISHIMA fires 27 Type 1 AP, 22 Type 3 and 8 Type 0 incendiary 14-in shells, plus 313 secondary caliber shells. She scores three hits with Type 3 incendiary shells on SAN FRANCISCO's armor belt on port side, causing minor flooding and a fire in the laundry. KIRISHIMA claims her target as sunk. In turn, she receives one 8-in shell hit from SAN FRANCISCO and loses seven men to machine gun fire. KIRISHIMA shifts fire to USS HELENA, hitting her once. She also damages several destroyers, including LAFFEY, MONSSEN, and possibly AARON WARD.
On the Japanese side, Cdr Hara's destroyer AMATSUKAZE is damaged by gunfire from light cruiser HELENA that knocks out AMATSUKAZE's guns, main director and jams her rudder. Destroyer IKAZUCHI's No. 1 mount is knocked out by gunfire and destroyer MURASAME is hit in the forward boiler room.
Rear Admirals Callaghan and Scott are awarded Medals of Honor (MOH) posthumously. LtCdr (later Rear Admiral-Ret) Bruce McCandless, who assumes command of SAN FRANCISCO and Cdr (later Rear Admiral-Ret) Herbert E. Schonland, SAN FRANCISCO's damage control officer, are also both awarded Medals of Honor.
0615: HIEI, unsteerable and circling at five knots, is attacked repeatedly by Marine Douglas SDB "Dauntless" dive-bombers of VMSB-131 from Henderson Field and Grumman TBF "Avenger" torpedo planes and SDBs from ENTERPRISE (CV-6).
0815: Vice Admiral Abe signals KIRISHIMA to tow HIEI to Shortland that night and orders the rest of the Attack Force to retire. Then he transfers his flag to destroyer YUKIKAZE.
0930: Tug USS BOBOLINK (AT-131) arrives and takes ATLANTA under tow.
1400: Flooding from the torpedo hit makes it clear that ATLANTA cannot be saved. Captain Jenkins orders her surviving crewmen taken off by Higgins boats sent from Guadalcanal. Jenkins and a demolition party remain until the scuttling charges explode, then leave the ship.
1530: During the day, HIEI suffers 70 American sorties. She takes on a list to starboard and is down at the stern. Vice Admiral Abe orders Captain Nishida to Abandon Ship. Nishida reluctantly orders HIEI scuttled. The Emperor's portrait is removed. Nishida and other survivors are rescued by DesDiv 27's SHIGURE, SHIRATSUYU, YUGURE and DesDiv 61's TERUZUKI.
1652: 360 miles south of Guadalcanal. Captain (later Vice Admiral) Thomas L. Gatch's USS SOUTH DAKOTA (BB-57) escorting Rear Admiral (later Admiral) Thomas C. Kinkaid's (former CO of INDIANAPOLIS, CA-35) Task Force 16's ENTERPRISE (CV-6) from Noumea, New Caledonia to Guadalcanal, joins Captain (later Vice Admiral) Glenn B. Davis' new battleship WASHINGTON (BB-56) and destroyers PRESTON (DD-379), BENHAM (DD-397), WALKE (DD-416) and GWIN (DD-433) at sea. As ordered by Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, ComSoPac, they form Task Force 64 under the command of Rear Admiral (later Vice Admiral) Willis A. Lee (former CO of CONCORD, CL-10) aboard WASHINGTON.
1838: Admiral Yamamoto orders Abe not to scuttle HIEI, but the message is received too late.
1900-0100: HIEI sinks by the stern at 09-00S, 159-00E. 188 crewmen are lost.
1915: TF 64 detaches from the ENTERPRISE group and heads north at 26 knots.
2015: ATLANTA sinks three miles west of Lunga Point in 180 feet of water.
Admiral Yamamoto relieves Abe of tactical command and orders his deputy Vice Admiral Kondo to shell Henderson Field the next night. For this tasking, Kondo orders his battle worthy forces to rendezvous north of Guadalcanal. [4]
2210: Admiral Kondo's Force gathers at the rendezvous point at Ontong Java. He forms an Emergency Bombardment (Volunteer Attack) Force composed of KIRISHIMA, CruDiv 4's ATAGO (F) and TAKAO. DesRon 10's light cruiser NAGARA and six destroyers form a Screening Unit while DesRon 3's light cruiser SENDAI and three destroyers form a Sweeping Unit. Carrier JUNYO, battleships KONGO and HARUNA and the remainder of Kondo's Second Fleet Advanced Force are to hold station as distant cover.
14 November 1942:
0130-0200: CHOKAI, MAYA and SUZUYA bombard Henderson Field with 1, 370 8-inch shells, then retire towards Shortlands.
0530: Vice Admiral Kondo's Bombardment Force is detached from the Advance Force and proceeds slowly southeastward while KONGO and HARUNA refuel the destroyers. After refueling, KONGO and HARUNA detach and take up station with the covering force.
0739: LtCdr (later Vice Admiral/Medal of Honor) Lawson P. "Red" Ramage's USS TROUT (SS-202) sights KIRISHIMA but the submarine is unable to gain an attack position.
During the day, Rear Admiral Tanaka's reinforcement convoy is attacked repeatedly by aircraft from the "Cactus Air Force" on Guadalcanal and ENTERPRISE's Air Group. Six of Tanaka's 11 troop transports are sunk or abandoned and one damaged so severely that she is forced to return to Shortland. Tanaka presses on with his four remaining transports.
1455: 100 miles south of Guadalcanal. A Japanese search plane sights Lee's TF 64, but misidentifies the ships as two "cruisers" and four destroyers.
1518: East of Santa Ysabel Island, TROUT again sights KIRISHIMA. Ramage fires five Mark-14 torpedoes at her. One, a dud, hits the battleship. Another passes under a destroyer, and others narrowly miss Kondo's flagship, ATAGO.
2045: Kondo receives a report from another search plane of a sighting of two enemy "cruisers" and four destroyers heading north at 25 knots.
2210: Lookouts aboard light cruiser SENDAI report sighting two enemy "cruisers" and four destroyers north of Savo Island. Admiral Kondo splits his force so that they can attack the Americans from several directions at once.The Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal:
At 2301, WASHINGTON makes radar contact at 18,000 yards, bearing to the east of Savo Island. At 2316, WASHINGTON opens fire on SENDAI and URANAMI with her 16-inch main battery. SENDAI makes smoke, puts about and retires undamaged. Light cruiser NAGARA and destroyer AYANAMI engage the Americans with gunfire and torpedoes. Destroyers PRESTON and WALKE are sunk; BENHAM is so badly damaged that she must be scuttled the next evening by GWIN (by gunfire, after attempts with four Mark 15 torpedoes fail). Five-inch shells from SOUTH DAKOTA and WASHINGTON's cripple AYANAMI and she has to be scuttled by URANAMI.
At 2340, SOUTH DAKOTA resumes fire at Hashimoto's ships. Her rear turret sets fire to three floatplanes on her own quarterdeck. The next salvo blows two planes overboard, but then SOUTH DAKOTA's radar is disabled by an electrical malfunction.
At 2351, Admiral Kondo orders his unit to stand by to change course to 130 in order to proceed with his bombardment mission. ATAGO is leading TAKAO and KIRISHIMA in a line-ahead formation, when a new type enemy battleship is sighted off the starboard bow.
Around 2353, KIRISHIMA and ATAGO illuminate SOUTH DAKOTA with their searchlights and then open fire, followed by TAKAO; ATAGO also launches a salvo of eight torpedoes. Within the next few minutes KIRISHIMA fires a total of 117 14-inch shells (68 Type 3 incendiaries, 22 Type 0 Common and 27 Type 1 APC), scoring multiple hits with secondary and main guns. One Type 1 APC explodes against SOUTH DAKOTA's No. 3 turret's barbette.
SOUTH DAKOTA also takes seventeen 8-inch hits from ATAGO and TAKAO, plus five 6-inch and one 5-inch hits. The hits prove the worth of SOUTH DAKOTA's armor, but make a shambles of her superstructure, tear up radar and communications cables, shatter her radar plot, disable her gun directors and destroy four of her six fire-control radars.
15 November 1942:
Undetected, WASHINGTON approaches to within 5,800 yards and opens fire at KIRISHIMA around 0000. First straddled, KIRISHIMA attempts to return fire, but her forward turrets are quickly disabled and a fire breaks out in the forward wireless station.
At 0002, WASHINGTON checks fire, when her target is reported as sunk. At 0004 she resumes fire, scoring new hits during the next three minutes. KIRISHIMA is reported to be ablaze and heading away, making two complete circles en route. WASHINGTON fires 36 additional rounds from her main guns. [5]
Aboard KIRISHIMA multiple fires are burning in amidships and stern area. Both aft turrets are disabled as a result of damage to their hydraulic system. The steering compartment is partially flooded and the rudders jammed at 10 degrees starboard. Multiple underwater hits cause an increasing list to starboard. To prevent an explosion, Capt Iwabuchi orders the forward magazines flooded.
Despite rising temperature in the engine rooms, the crippled battleship is capable of making speed, but she remains practically unnavigable. Several attempts are made to steer with the help of engines, but to no avail. The divers sent to the steering compartment fail to penetrate the watertight scuttles in the adjacent bulkhead. By 0249, the entire steering compartment is flooded and KIRISHIMA starts to drift. By that time most fires are put out.
NAGARA briefly tries to tow the battered battleship, but this attempt fails. When the starboard list increases, Iwabuchi orders to flood port engine rooms. Destroyers ASAGUMO, TERUZUKI and SAMIDARE are ordered to stand by to pick up the crew in case of need.
WASHINGTON is untouched.
Kondo orders Rear Admiral Tanka's reinforcement convoy to turn away (At dawn, Tanaka lands about 2,000 troops by running his four remaining transports aground on the beach near Tassafaronga). The attempt to tow badly battered KIRISHIMA by NAGARA is given up.0325: KIRISHIMA suddenly rolls over and capsizes to port 7.5 miles NW of Savo Island at 09-05S, 159-42E. A total of 212 crewmen are lost. ASAGUMO, TERUZUKI and SAMIDARE rescue Captain Iwabuchi, his Executive Officer Cdr (Rear Admiral, posthumously) Ono Koro (later KIA as MUTSU's XO) and 1,098 survivors. The Emperor's portrait is transferred to destroyer ASAGUMO. [5]
The first battleship vs. battleship encounter in the Pacific War is over, as is Admiral Yamamoto's "decisive naval battle" for Guadalcanal.
22 November 1942:
Captain Iwabuchi is formally relieved of command.[6]
20 December 1942:
BatDiv 11 is deactivated and KIRISHIMA is removed from the Navy List.
August 1992:
Oceanographer Dr. Robert D. Ballard discovers the wreck of KIRISHIMA in 4,000 feet of water, resting upside down with its bow blown off. [7]
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Who will be the most affected by Climate Change?
Children in developing countries already have a tough time but their lives will become even tougher because of climate change.
The people who will be most affected by climate change apart from you and me are children in developing countries. They will have to put up with the harsh consequences of climate change the most. They already have it tough and it is concerning and upsetting knowing they are facing an even tougher future.
Children in developing countries produce very little or no carbon emissions yet the impact of climate change for them will be huge. They will have less water, less crops for food and their health will also be affected. Due to changing temperatures and rainfall patterns malaria cases will increase. These children and their families already experience poverty, hunger and illness.
"Nearly 10 million children under the age of five die every year of largely preventable diseases. Malaria – which currently claims the lives of around 800,000 children every year – is sensitive to changes in temperature and rainfall and could become more common if weather patterns change". Source: UNICEF UK Climate Change Report 2008
"The number of children dying each year due to the effects of malnutrition – currently 3.5 million – is likely to increase as a result of climate change". Source: In the Face of Disaster: Children and Climate Change, Save the Children Alliance
When these children become ill they cannot go to school. If their education is affected they are less likely to break out of the poverty cycle.
"Climate change can also have a significant impact on a child's ability to attend school. For instance, during the July 2007 floods in Sudan, nearly 200 schools were damaged, affecting nearly 45,000 children". Sources: Association for Childhood Education International, UNICEF UK Climate Change Report 2008
Climate change may bring more natural disasters such as Hurricanes and Tsunami's and these events will also affect these children. We have already witnessed some of these natural disasters and it is scary to think that there will be more.
"Approximately 175 million children will be affected by climate change induced natural disasters every year over the next decade. This is 50 million more than during the ten years to 2005". Source: Legacy of Disasters; Children Bear the Brunt of Climate Warming, Save the Children UK 2007
"Children are more likely than adults to perish during natural disasters or succumb to malnutrition, injuries or disease in the aftermath. Over 96% of all disaster-related deaths worldwide in recent years have occurred in developing countries". Source: UNICEF UK Climate Change Report 2008
"Women and children account for more than 75% of displaced people following natural disasters. For instance, during the July 2007 floods in Bangladesh, 4.2 million children were affected, 300,000 of them under the age of five". Source: UNICEF UK Climate Change Report 2008
"An estimated 650,000 people, of which 300,000 children, were affected by back-to-back hurricanes in Haiti in 2008". Source: UNICEF Press release (6 September 2008)
Less than two years after the Hurricanes hit Haiti they are facing another natural disaster as a result of the recent earthquake. It takes time, lots of time to recover from mass destruction as a result of a natural disaster and the poor people of Haiti face more hardship within a small space of time.
It is one of my goals to educate fellow kids in Australia and around the world that we can help fellow children in need. As we grow into adults we will then have the skills and knowledge to pass down to the next generation. There appears to be a lack of political will to help kids more in developing nations but we don't always need politicians to help and make the decisions for us, we can all do something to help if we have the will.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Coarse mud was clinging to Fereshta Kazemi's high-heeled boots as she tottered on a slippery footpath. No one noticed. Everyone was staring at her legs.
Her legs! They were exposed! And worse — she wore sheer hosiery that only accented her limbs and emphasized that her tight skirt ended somewhat above her knees. Her hair was uncovered too. It cascaded like a dark blanket across her shoulders.
The popcorn peddler stopped filling his soiled bags and ogled her. The vegetable man leered, and so did the security guard. Two women wearing burkas stared hard. A herd of boys and men bird-dogged this exotic figure from America, pointing and scolding in an alleyway in Old Kabul's Shar-e-Kohna neighborhood.
One boy was so transfixed that he tumbled into a sewage ditch, drawing howls of laughter from his companions. And still everyone gawked at the Afghan woman from America.
Kazemi offered no apology, no explanation. She was born in Kabul 33 years ago and left at age 2. Raised in the U.S., she is back now for the first time, determined to radically alter the way Afghans view women — particularly women who act.
If making it in Hollywood, Kazemi's previous endeavor, is demanding, making it in Kabul is brutal. In August, Benafsha, 22, an Afghan actress from a TV satire, was stabbed to death outside a mosque and two fellow actresses were knifed. Witnesses said the women had been threatened by men for "un-Islamic" behavior.
The two survivors were taken to a police station for virginity tests — and prostitution charges. Another actress, Sahar Parniyan, received death threats after the stabbings and went into hiding.
On this day in Kabul, Kazemi was on her way to a film location. It was a serial, an Afghan soap opera. Kazemi had accepted an ironic role, playing a liberated Afghan American woman who returns home to Kabul; dramatic cultural clashes ensue.
On the outdoor set, the director, Mirwais Rakab, greeted her with a startled look. "Fereshta!" he said.
"I almost passed out," Rakab said later. "Oh, the way she dresses. The way she walks. I was shocked! I loved it, but I was shocked."
Rakab pointed out that he is no prude. He's attended film festivals in Europe and Aspen Filmfest in Colorado.
"Ah, but this is Afghanistan," he said. "We are under great stress."
Kazemi is violating two Afghan codes — one that demands the submissive, fully covered Afghan woman and another that assumes every actress is a whore. In fact, Kazemi and others say, for many years the only women who could be persuaded to act here were, indeed, prostitutes.
While in Kabul, Kazemi is also filming a documentary on the lives of Afghan actors and actresses, focusing on the risks of daring to act in a repressive society. One actress she's following works as a prostitute.
Her subjects will not allow her to interview family members, who object to the disreputable craft. Kazemi herself declined to allow her relatives in Kabul to be interviewed for this article because they consider acting shameful — and a threat to their dignity and safety.
PHOTOS: Hollywood backlot moments
Kazemi realizes that the way she dresses and acts — literally, that she acts — is a dangerous provocation. Death threats are common. This is a country where censors blur the offending legs or shoulders of actresses in foreign-made dramas. Kissing is scandalous and forbidden, even between actors portraying husband and wife.
Kazemi knows too that merely dressing in a way that would be unremarkable in Los Angeles, where she found roles in small independent films, can signal to Afghan men that a woman is, to put it mildly, available — or, worse, soliciting for paid sex.
"I want to make sure I'm putting up a big 'No Vacancy' sign," she said.
But the eyes of Afghan men and boys follow her footfalls. One man told his friends after watching Kazemi walk to the serial set: "She should be beaten."
"Fereshta needs to be careful," said Tarique Qayumi, 37, an Afghan Canadian filmmaker here who cast her in an Afghan-themed movie shot in California. "She's very aggressive and a total feminist, and that's good. But it can be dangerous here."
Other Afghan friends have warned her: "They tell me, do not show 1 inch of skin, Fereshta," she said in her rapid-fire, New York-inflected diction.
But other Afghans have thanked her for championing actresses as artists and even patriots. "One guy, a security guard, saw me and smiled," she said. "He said, 'nooshe jan-et' — enjoy deeply — like, look at this crazy girl, no head cover, smoking, just going her own way."
Reviving Afghan film
In the 1970s and early 1980s, Afghan cinema was modern and vibrant. Kazemi's documentary follows Maimoona Ghezal, an Afghan actress in her 60s who was a glamorous star of the era.
"I worked in cinema then, and I remember all the women's gorgeous legs — I'm hungry for all that again," said Rakab, the director.
Sadam Niko, 21, who plays Kazemi's love interest in the serial, "Kocha-e-Ma" (Our Street), said of his costar: "I think she's so brave." If the war ever ends, he said, "All these problems will just go away."
Kazemi is living temporarily with relatives in a conservative neighborhood where most women wear burkas. She refuses to wear even a head scarf.
"I respect the traditions of being covered, but I will not cover my hair. I won't," she said.
The men in the shop next to her relatives' house gossip about her, she said, and stare as she strolls past. Her male cousins insist on escorting her every time she walks to find a taxi.
One cousin told her that he would be shamed and would deny he was her relative if she appears on the TV serial. When she told him to have courage, he said it was about honor, not courage.
"He told me: 'You'll be considered a prostitute,'" she said. "The value of a female is directly connected to male honor. Her reputation — how she looks and behaves in public — is all that matters. And it's all tied to sexuality."
When Kazemi mentioned to her aunt that she plans to find her own apartment, she was told that she would first need her parents' permission.
This is true, said Kazemi's mother, who lives with Fereshta's father in the Bay Area. Kazemi asked that her mother's name not be published because she has worked in Afghanistan as a translator for American troops.
Parents had other ideas
Kazemi's parents are classic immigrant strivers who wanted their daughter to become a doctor. Both are professionals who fled Afghanistan after Fereshta's father was put on a death list by the communist government, Kazemi said. The family lived in Thailand before moving to New York when Kazemi was 6.
Even as a child, Kazemi wanted to be an actress, her mother said. "She always told me: 'One day, I'll go back to Afghanistan and change things,'" she said.
The other day, Kazemi was trying on a wedding dress for a movie role as an Afghan woman married in a village. She playfully suggested that she discard the wedding cloak and instead bare her shoulders.
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"No! Cover your shoulders!" the movie's producer, Omar Zazai Ramin, told her. "Do you want to get us all killed?"
Even for men, filmmaking is often considered base and subversive, said Qayumi, the filmmaker: "Respect for the industry isn't there yet."
Qayumi spoke inside a high-rise construction site, where he was filming "The Road to the Truth," about the April 15 attack on Kabul's diplomatic zone by insurgents firing from an unfinished high-rise. The docu-drama's stars are the actual Afghan rapid response police who fought the attackers. One officer flung stones at rubber-neckers who gathered too close to the set.
Western-raised Afghans like Qayumi and Kazemi, who plans to stay here for a year, want to show that cinema can honor Afghan culture by creating admirable, nuanced characters. They resent the insipid Indian, Turkish and Iranian dramas that dominate Afghan TV and overshadow locally made productions.
"Every nation needs its storytellers," Qayumi said. "Afghans are working to heal their country — police, doctors, soldiers. What we're doing is building heroes."
Kazemi met Qayumi when he sought Afghan American actresses while completing his master's degree in screenwriting at UCLA. She won the role of the Afghan wife of an Afghan immigrant hounded in Los Angeles by a female American soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Kazemi said she persuaded Qayumi to make her character — a traditional wife — stronger and more willful. She lobbied for and won a fleeting scene in which she and her husband kiss in the movie, "Targeting," a psychological thriller written by Qayumi.
Qayumi said he gave Kazemi the part because "she has a certain fire in her. She brought a lot of energy to the role."
One cold evening in Kabul, at a private club on a trash-strewn dirt street, "Targeting" was screened on a swatch of white cloth tacked to a brick wall. Qayumi, wearing a "Rambo III" T-shirt, propped the projector on a napkin box.
The audience represented a slice of Kabul's young, hip, urbane milieu. The dominant language was English with smatterings of Dari. Kazemi sat up front, well dressed and elegantly coiffed.
In the film, Kazemi's character spoke in Dari and English. The wife is respectful but bold enough to argue with her husband. In a brief long shot, they kiss. When the credits rolled, everyone applauded and whistled. Kazemi and Qayumi rose to answer audience questions.
Kazemi had a question of her own. "I don't know if everybody caught the kiss — did you?" she said. "I hope so. It's very important."
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Topic Page: Waldenses
(wôldĕn'sēz) or Waldensians, Protestant religious group of medieval origin, called in French Vaudois. They originated in the late 12th cent. as the Poor Men of Lyons, a band organized by Peter Waldo, a wealthy merchant of Lyons, who gave away his property (c.1176) and went about preaching apostolic poverty as the way to perfection. Being laymen, they were forbidden to preach. They went to Rome, where Pope Alexander III blessed their life but forbade preaching (1179) without authorization from the local clergy. They disobeyed and began to teach unorthodox doctrines; they were formally declared heretics by Pope Lucius III in 1184 and by the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. In 1211 more than 80 were burned as heretics at Strasbourg, beginning several centuries of persecution.
The Waldenses proclaimed the Bible as the sole rule of life and faith. They rejected the papacy, purgatory, indulgences, and the mass, and laid great stress on gospel simplicity. Worship services consisted of readings from the Bible, the Lord's Prayer, and sermons, which they believed could be preached by all Christians as depositaries of the Holy Spirit. Their distinctive pre-Reformation doctrines are set forth in the Waldensian Catechism (c.1489). They had contact with other similar groups, especially the Humiliati.
The Waldenses were most successful in Dauphiné and Piedmont and had permanent communities in the Cottian Alps SW of Turin. In 1487 at the instance of Pope Innocent VIII a persecution overwhelmed the Dauphiné Waldenses, but those in Piedmont defended themselves successfully. In 1532 they met with German and Swiss Protestants and ultimately adapted their beliefs to those of the Reformed Church. In 1655 the French and Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy began a campaign against them. Oliver Cromwell sent a mission of protest; that occasion also prompted John Milton's famous poem on the Waldenses. At the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), the Waldensian leader, Henri Arnaud, led a band into Switzerland; he later led them back to their valleys.
After the French Revolution the Waldenses of Piedmont were assured liberty of conscience, and in 1848, King Charles Albert of Savoy granted them full religious and civil rights. A group of Waldensians settled in the United States at Valdese, N.C. The Waldensian Church is included in the Alliance of Reformed Churches of the Presbyterian Order. The principal Waldensian writer was Arnaud.
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Some magazine stories are bigger than others. Bigger in scope, intent, audacity. And then there are those stories that are bigger in retrospect — stories that gain in stature and influence as the years pass and are cited as groundbreaking because of what they signified when they first appeared. Few stories of the latter variety can compare with the very first cover story LIFE magazine ever ran: photographer Margaret Bourke-White's magnificent feature on the construction of Montana's Fort Peck Dam.
After all, as a statement by a new magazine about the lengths to which it's willing to go to bring the world, in all its thrilling complexity, into homes all over America, Bourke-White's picture story could hardly be bettered. Somehow grand and intimate at once, her photographs — and the prominence with which LIFE displayed them — made it plain that here was a magazine unafraid to tackle genuinely big stories in new and imaginative ways.
[Buy the book, 75 Years: The Very Best of LIFE]
All of which makes the subsequent treatment of the most essential elements of that historic assignment — Bourke-White's negatives — so puzzling and, in a way, dismaying. As astonishing as it might sound, a good number of the Fort Peck negatives have been so badly damaged, or have been allowed to deteriorate to such a degree over the years, that they are, for all intents and purposes, no longer viable. Prints can not be made from them. The images themselves have degraded to the point where key details have been forever lost.
They are, in short, ruined.
The mystery of how these negatives came to be so damaged is heightened, in a way, by the fact that, after more than 75 years, so many of the Fort Peck negatives remain in pristine condition. Were some negatives lent out, accidentally damaged by an unknown hand, and returned? Were these particular negatives placed on some random heat source, like a radiator, and forgotten? Was there a chemical spill that affected some, but not all, of the negatives? Were they damaged while being developed?
[See the Fort Peck Dam cover story on LIFE.com]
Whatever the circumstances under which these essential, seminal negatives were corrupted, the resulting visuals, as this gallery illustrates, offer an eloquent (if wholly unintentional) commentary on the disruption, decay and loss inherent in all analog photography — and, in a broader sense, in the physical world as a whole.
But beyond all of the technical and even existential questions that Bourke-White's damaged negatives raise, it's also worth noting, and celebrating, one other characteristic that makes these artifacts so fascinating: namely, that they just look really, really cool.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Earthquakes announced today that the club has signed rookie defenders Joe Sofia and Ryan Neil. Per league and team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Sofia, 22, was a second-round pick (No. 28 overall) of the Earthquakes in the 2014 MLS SuperDraft. He completed a strong four-year career with the Bruins in 2013, starting 19 matches at center back and earning All-Pac-12 honors while helping UCLA to the third round of the NCAA Tournament.
For his career, the Southern California native scored five goals and recorded eight assists in 82 games. He earned All-Pac-12 honors as a sophomore, junior and senior and was also the Pac-12 Men's Soccer Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2013. The Bruins recorded 34 shutouts during his career, as Sofia helped UCLA to four consecutive appearances in the NCAA Tournament, including an appearance in the 2011 College Cup.
Neil, 22, was a first-round pick (No. 18 overall) of Real Salt Lake in the 2014 MLS SuperDraft, but was not signed. He spent four years at Cal, earning All-Pac-12 second-team honors in 2013 and 2012. The Southern California native played and started 20 games in 2013, recording one goal and four assists and earning an All-Pac-12 second-team selection as a senior at Berkeley. Neil helped the Golden Bears reach the quarterfinals of the 2013 NCAA College Cup, putting in a full 90 minutes in the team's 2-1 quarterfinal loss to the University of Maryland.
In his junior year, Neil earned a spot on the NSCAA All-Far West third team and was a member of the All-Pac-12 second-team while recording a career-high five assists. The Mission Viejo, Calif. native appeared in 67 games, made 48 starts and tallied a total of two goals and 13 assists in his collegiate career.
Transaction: San Jose Earthquakes (MLS) – San Jose Earthquakes sign D Joe Sofia and D Ryan Neil.
Joe Sofia
Position: Defender
Jersey Number: 27
Height: 6-2
Weight: 180 lbs.
Born: Oct. 8, 1991 in Mission Viejo, Calif.
Hometown: Dove Canyon, Calif.
College: UCLA
Citizenship: USA
Ryan Neil
Position: Defender
Jersey Number: 19
Height: 6-1
Weight: 165
Birthdate: Jan. 2, 1992 in Newport Beach, Calif.
Hometown: Mission Viejo, Calif.
College: Cal
Citizenship: USA


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Up to five million people across the UK could miss out on hundreds of pounds, having mistaken a legit ''fill this in to get your money back'' form for junk mail. If you've had a debit or credit card since 2005 (i.e pretty much everyone), then please spend five minutes reading what I'm about to write – it could be your most lucrative moment of 2014.
This is all about the £1.3 billion CPP card and ID fraud protection misselling scandal. That's not a typo: it is CPP (Card Protection Plan) and not PPI, and it's this confusion that is the big problem.
Since February, more than seven million people have been sent CPP redress letters, dating back to policies since 2005. If you haven't heard of CPP that doesn't mean you weren't missold – many were under names such as CardGuard, Card Protection Plus, Card Safe or Egg Emergency Cover.
Of those, as of last month only 1.7 million (about 25 per cent) had responded, and there's potentially £900 million left unclaimed. Worse still, the clock is ticking – the last date to return them is August 30.
My worry is that so many people have had nonsense spam calls, texts and mail from PPI claims handlers that when they received these legitimate CPP letters, they thought it was part of that baloney and binned them.
Unfortunately, that's like chucking away a crisp bundle of £50 notes, as I've not yet heard of anyone who got a CPP redress letter, returned it and didn't get the cash. And as 750,000 have read my CPP redress guide online, you'd think that if it had happened I'd have heard.
Missold protection policies from CPP were like insuring yourself against being punched on the nose by Martin Lewis. Those affected are now being invited to claim their money back
What I have heard of, though, is people who simply didn't believe their letter was real. Tara Rees Lawrence contacted me to say: "I got £290 back due to two credit cards! I'd thrown the two first letters away mistaking them for junk mail, but saw on MoneySavingExpert that CPP letters were genuine! Claim forms were then sent to me and I filled them out and sent them back. Cheques arrived within a few weeks."
Then there was Angela Meyers, who "threw it away and then retrieved it because of your advice –received over £200! Thanks."
Of course, it's only those who dumped letters then later had the epiphany who have contacted me – the big problem is how many haven't seen the light. And this can involve big money, as Vigman says on my forum: "I used the MSE template statements. I got a cheque for £625 for my claim, £205 for my wife's, and £250 for my son's." Some have only got £30 or so back, but still it's worth checking.
So, enough of the call to arms, here's my Q&A on what you need to know:
Q. What products did CPP sell?
CPP is a worldwide company. It has a variety of products, but it is two specific ones, both for debit and credit cards, that are the focus of this payback.
Card protection products: these allowed customers to call one number to have all lost and stolen cards stopped (i.e they made a few phone calls for you: use cardsgone.com for an easy, free online alternative). Plus, crucially, if your card was lost and stolen it would cancel it and cover you for fraud.
ID fraud protection: this promised to give you reports about your identity (no great shakes – you've a statutory right to a credit report for £2), and cover you for the risk and liability of having your identity stolen.
It no longer sells these policies in the UK (though it does elsewhere) and focuses instead on Card Rescue – a revamped version without the insurance element and Airport Angel, which gives access to airport lounges worldwide.
Q. How did it missell?
When you got a credit or debit card there was an ''activation'' sticker with a number to call, which was a ruse to sell you the insurance. People thought they were talking to their bank to set up a card, but it was actually CPP.
They were then told they needed £100,000 fraud protection cover; yet banks must cover fraud anyway, unless they can prove the customer was grossly negligent. In a nutshell, these major elements of the policy were virtually worthless.
It doesn't stop there: some people were told they couldn't cancel; the risk of ID fraud was overstated; it hiked prices without informing people; or auto-renewed with no opportunity to cancel.
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Q. How does the redress system work?
After it was discovered these policies were systematically being missold, CPP was fined £10.5 million by the Financial Conduct Authority. It then ''volunteered'' to agree to that rarity, a central collective redress scheme – basically a big pot of money to pay back missold customers. Those affected automatically get sent a letter to be told they have a policy, and are invited to fill in a form to reclaim.
CPP is not alone in this: in fact the banks who pushed the scheme have put the bulk of cash in the pay-out pot – specifically Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Egg (as was), Capital One, and Clydesdale bank.
Q. Why do so many people fall for this?
Imagine that before you read this column someone offered to sell you "Martin Lewis punch-you-in-the-face insurance" against the event that because you read this, I'd come and find you and smack you. It's ludicrous, but then wouldn't some people think, "There must be a reason they're selling this insurance. He must have done it before. They wouldn't be selling it unless there was a tangible, manifest risk."
Now you've thought that, it starts to create a doubt, maybe you should get it, after all it's not that expensive, and peace of mind against the cost of time off work being lamped hard on the nose is important.
Well, now turn it to a financial example, where people know less about the facts. Building on fear, employing PR people to pump up ID fraud worries, helps sell policies. Millions signed up to CPP to protect themselves from a conjured-up risk that sounded believable.
Q. I've got a letter, what do I do with it?
If you get a letter, it means you had a policy and were almost certainly missold it, so just fill it in. If you had both policies you'll get separate letters for each. Again, I've not heard of anyone doing this who didn't get the money.
Q. When it asks me ''why I want to be considered for compensation'' what should I write?
This is Section B of the form, the bit some find most difficult to answer. To help, I've a range of template statements for various scenarios you can cut and paste, as well as more practical help at moneysavingexpert.com/CPP.
Q. What does the letter look like?
The CPP logo is at the top left printed in red. Do note, it always writes, it doesn't email.
Q. I think I may have had a letter, but I binned it, what do I do?
CPP is sending reminders out to some people, but not everyone, so don't rely on that. The safest thing to do is contact the scheme team on 08000 834393 and ask them to send you another letter.
Q. How much could I get back?
The card protection plan cost £30 a year, the ID fraud £80 a year. You get all your fees back plus statutory interest (8 per cent a year, but not compounded). So if you had it over a few years you're due back a significant wodge. It is worth noting that you do pay tax on the interest (but not on the returned fees).
Q. They sent me a letter, but I don't remember having a policy.
In many ways that was part of the mis-selling: it was made to feel as if you activated a card, then the fee was just tucked on to your statement. You're on their database of having the insurance, so unless you're 100 per cent sure you don't, fill in the form.
Q. I think I should have got the letter, but haven't.
The most obvious reason is you've moved and it doesn't have your most recent address, so call it on 08000 834393. Though do remember that other companies sold similar policies, so there is a possibility of confusing them.
Q. I got a letter about voting, is that the same thing?
No. Late last year people were asked to vote if they wanted a mass redress scheme – they did. If you did get that letter, you should have had a follow up inviting you to claim.
Q. What if the money is owed to a now deceased relative?
The money is owed to the estate, so you can collect on its behalf if you're entitled, but only for those who passed away after June 27, 2013.
Q. Is this encouraging compensation culture?
No, this isn't compensation. This is simply being given your money back for a dud product.
Q. How long will it take to get the cash?
The deadline for sending in your claim forms is August 30, but there's a queuing system, so the quicker you fill in the form, the quicker you'll get your money.
Q. I had a policy before 2005, can I reclaim?
Not via the mass redress scheme. Yet I have heard of some being paid out for earlier mis-sold policies. Full help to try this is at mse.me/2005CPP.
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There are a couple of different SIRIUS Starmates that are out there, and some are not compatible with each other. It is good to know which receiver works with which kits:
MODEL Number ST1 .This was the first starmate that SIRIUS came out with. The unit featured a channel toggle switch and a bright 3 line display screen. This unit has since been discontinued.
This is the Starmate Replay MODEL Number ST2R or ST2. This was one of the first SIRIUS receivers to allow the PAUSE, FAST FORWARD and REWIND feature. This feature allows you to pause LIVE satellite content and restart it with out ever missing anything. This unit has also become Discontinued.
Starmate ST3– MODEL Number ST3. This was one of the first receivers to introduce the Universal SIRIUS Docking style. This Universal docking style has expanded compatibility for all the SIRIUS Dock and Play receivers made currently. This receiver did not include the Replay function.
Starmate ST4– This SIRIUS Starmate 4 was an upgrade to the ST3, adding features like Pause, Fast Forward, Rewind. This receiver did add back the Replay function and also added the Blue Screen.
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All Kills In Real Animation AKIRA was the most death laden example of killing off cute anime characters from the previous decadeds by casting them as extras in the background of this 2D deathumentary.
OK, to they take rejects from Scanners, and give them a big dose of radiation, throw them the bikes from TRON then they give us all lots of drugs to make us sit down and believe it all.
Now with audience hopped up on those pills you keep thinking you see the entire movie (just keep thinking that, bub, that's a good monkey) the rejects from Scanners (their names are Tetsuo, Kaneda, guy who dies, and guy nobody cares about) form a gang as gangs are cool, right? So cool that even clown can have gangs! Yes, cool clowns. Just keep taking your pills.
Anyway, after the government realities the amount of Anime particles radiating from Tetsuo is enough to mutate his girlfriend, too, he is taken in to some super secret lab where he is assaulted by these creepy children that they imported from the back of the refrigerator. Apparently massive doses of the gamma rays from the light bulbs in your fridge gave them psychic powers. Then Tetsuo gets psychic powers and proceeds to make people's heads a splode!
Tetsuo escapes the laboratory, blows up a lot of people's heads, gets really drunk/high, and has a great weekend in Tijuana. Meanwhile the audience and the scientists watch on in horror as the Radiation particles radiating from Tesuo grow to epic proportions causing him to form into a massive blob of jelly that starts eating things.
The kids from the back of the fridge summon the only creature with more radiation coming from him than Tetsuo- a naked kid named Akira. The world then proceeds to implode just as the audience's buzz starts to wear off and everyone is treated to a Flashback of Tetsuo, Akira and Kaneda as kids... even though they still kind of are kids. Just keep popping those pills! It'll all make sense in the morning.
Why isn't this movie called Tetsuo? Akira only shows up at the end and the only other character worth really giving a name just has his ass handed to him for half the movie.
"Tetsuo" is the only thing Kaneda knows how to say due to a massive stroke about a half way into the movie. He spends his time riding his Tron Bike and yelling Tetsuo during sex. Voiced by an openly gay singer.
Kaneda is Tetsuo's rival. He is psychic. Giant teddy bears hate him. He has a weak abdominal wall apparently, because his intestines spill out onto the sidewalk regularly.
- Akira Kurosawa— Japanese film director (you ever seen Seven Samurai?) who magically Destroyed Tokyo, like, 20 years ago.
- KANEDA!!— Because no anime is complete without a totally cool hero! If by cool you mean outdated even when the film was released.
- TETSUO!!— A clone of Akira... or something. Just take a few more pills...
- The Colonel— Government guy who's trying to stop the spread of Anime particles. Sadly, he doesn't realize HE IS INFECTED TOO!
- Old Scientist Guy— Thinks radiation particles are waaaay cool.
- Kaisuke - Billy Joel lookalike of questionable sexuality.
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(Kaneda and Tetsuo are riding their Tron bikes down Neo Tokyo)
Kaneda: TETSUOOOOOOO!!
Tetsuo: KANEDA!!
(Now they're walking down some street)
Kaneda: TETSUOOOOOOO!!
Tetsuo: KANEDA!!
(Now they're at a restaurant, looking at the menus)
Kaneda: TETSUOOOOOOO!!
Tetsuo: KANEDA!!
(And now, they're in a restroom, both in different stalls)
Kaneda: TETSUOOOOOOO!!
Tetsuo: KANEDA!!
(Now they're in a movie theater)
Kaneda: TETSUOOOOOOO!!
Tetsuo: KANEDA!!
Random person: Shut up over there!
(Tetsuo is asleep one night, but the phone rings in the middle of the night)
(Tetsuo then answers it and finds out it's none other than...)
Kaneda: TETSUOOOOOOO!!
(Tetsuo rides his Tron bike down Neo Tokyo and sees Kaneda)
Tetsuo: KANEDA!!
(Tetsuo then gets in an accident and crashes, SKREEEEEEEE-KABLANG!!)
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shadow lab
I'm grinding Shadow lab for the lower city rep (I want the shiny mace). It's beginning to be frustrating. Not least because now that I've respecced shadow, everyone wants a healer.
Last night was an example. With some trepidation, I agreed to heal a party for shadow lab. I agreed because I looked at what we had and thought it should be an easy fight. Alas, it was not to be.
In fact, we wiped – three times – on Hellmaw.
Ambassador Hellmaw is not a big deal. Approximately 125,000 hit points, AoE fear every 30 seconds, corrosive acid spray. When he fears, he then attacks the person who has generated the most threat who is not feared.
If you're a healer and you're at long range while everyone else is close, that's probably you. If you're closer because the tank is fury spec and dancing him instead of keeping him in one position, you get feared too and it's your warlock who dies.
That was the consistent pattern. By the end of four fears the process of wiping had begun. Part of it was me – I missed a couple of heals. But part of it…
At point of wipe – that's two minutes – Hellmaw was never below 40%. In other words, the combined dps for the party did approximately 72,000 points of damage over 120 seconds for a nominal 600 dps.
600 dps. We had a warlock (demonology) and two hunters (both marksman), and the tank was fury spec who spent over half the battle in berserker, and we did a fricking. 600. dps.
Every single member of the party – to include myself – should have been able to do that. Heck, if they'd done my "poor job" 300 dps we'd have doubled the rate and killed him.
Gutcheck. If Hellmaw hasn't died before he casts the third fear, your party is not ready for Shadow Labyrinth.
The tank has to tank – and he did. The healer has to heal the tank – and I kept him alive through the first three fears in every battle. The DPS crew has to dps. And they were not so good at that. And so we wiped three times.
2 Responses to "shadow lab"
Ouch. Dad, just group with me, and I can heal while you 'mad-dps'! Oh, wait, that's what we've been doing the last few weeks, isn't it? lol ;P
Found your blog on google
good write up! Im a shadow priest about to do shadow labs myself


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Description:LGA monthly contributor (and mild mannered) Shelise Gieseke talks about her recent, not-so-pleasant and frustrating experience with Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS) and Children's Home Society & Family Services (CHSFS).
Topics Covered: Birth family search, GOA'L, Korea Central Adoption Resource (KCARE), Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS), Children's Home Society & Family Services (CHSFS), responsibilities of adoption agencies.
Additional Note: A couple of weeks ago we reached out to the Children's Home Society & Family Services (CHSFS) leadership, offering the agency the opportunity to respond to conversations like this podcast. Believe it or not, but we here at LGA want to be fair. The leadership declined the invitation.
It's so frustrating and discouraging to listen this. Since my adoptive parents didn't go through an agency, I've never had to deal with them. Long ago, I use to think it might have made my own search easier if they had. I guess that just depends, now doesn't it? Maybe I'm over-simplifying it, but to me, it's just common sense that adult adoptees (whether domestic or international) should have access to and control of their own records. Duh?


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Haiku to Mom
By Amy Goyer , May 10, 2013 05:33 PM
Here is m y haiku for Patricia, my Mom, who surprises and amazes and teaches me every day.
Fragile and yet strong
Her heart grows for her children
Mom is love warrior
- @amygoyer
I tweeted out my haiku and put out a call for haiku about mothers via my Twitter and AARP's Twitter (using #haikumom) and my Facebook and AARP's Facebook, and was overwhelmed with the quality (and quantity) of the haiku I received! Here is just a sampling of them.
These writers illustrate the full life cycle of motherhood - some with humor, some with emotion; all with descriptive details that gave me a sense of their mothers.
I am newly born
She holds me against her soul
We are both content
- Carole Dee Stark
Her arms are open
As I rush towards her smile
How I love my Mom
- Kim Fitzwater-Van Nimwegen
Iced tea always there
Pink rose yellow daffodil
Mother's joys in life
- Nancy Payne Chowning
"In real life," Mom said,
"People don't eat corn in bed,"
Passing us an ear.
- Cindy Wood Bowen
Boundless energy
Eighty-one by grace of God
Pink lipstick always
- Peggy Bryant
Spit on a hanky
And words of encouragement
To clean up my life.
- @BradForenza
The one who loves you
Though you do not deserve it
And the love lives on
- Willy King
Cat lady momma
First six sons then twenty cats
Keeps giving her love
- Cindy Wood Bowen
My beautiful mom
With a loving and pure heart
Lord, make me like her!
- Ramona McClary
Learning to adjust
My Mom remains the same
Just in a different way
- Therese Fieler Lackey
Ninety-four years old
Strong and amazingly sweet
One to emulate
- Tommie Ruiz
My ma is long dead
This sounds bad but it is true
I still miss her borscht
- @geneweingarten
Whether their grief is fresh or long-standing, many writers honored their mothers who have passed.
Missing my mama
First Mother's Day without her
Her spirit lives on
- Christie Groves Hunt
Sparkling eyes warm smile
Courageous living and love
To the end. Cancer.
- @transitionswork
Love lives in our hearts
Mother to all, love to spare
Hot August sorrow
- Linda Reardon
She was a puzzle
Unfathomable at times
Miss her still today
- Kim Angle Warner
She is now long gone
Only, seems like yesterday
We talked about life
- Fran Phelan-Logue
T his writer has a final message for us all:
I am fifty-four
My Mom will be ninety-five
Each day is a gift.
- @IZ_Eastshore
Thank you all for submitting your haiku! They were all wonderful and it was a huge challenge to pick which poems to include - you are all so talented I loved each and every one!
If your haiku isn't included here, please post it in the comments section below or on Twitter: @amygoyer or @AARP, or on my Facebook page or AARP's Facebook page - and tell us how you celebrate Mother's Day! Here is one more haiku to get your started:
Daughters gather now
Savory moments with Mom
Off to the buffet!
- @amygoyer
Amy Goyer is AARP's Home & Family Expert; she splits her time between Washington, D.C. and Phoenix, Ariz. where she is caregiving for both of her parents who live with her - follow Amy on Twitter @amygoyer and on Facebook .
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MALIBU, Calif. – The VCU Baseball team scored one run in the top of the first inning, but Pepperdine recorded the next six runs of the contest to claim the 6-1 victory over VCU at Pepperdine's Eddy D. Field Stadium.
"It turned out to be a pretty good game," said VCU Head Coach Paul Keyes. "We came out of the gates and got one early and it was a pretty good game going into the fifth. In that inning we were just unable to make a play or deliver a pitch to finish off that inning. Pepperdine did a great job in the situation and got ahead as a result. After that we just couldn't come back. They did a great job and you have to give them a ton a of credit."
The Rams only run of the contest came in the top of the first, with junior infielder Jordan Weymouth driving a triple into right center field to get into scoring position. Sophomore infielder Joey Cujas plated Weymouth (pictured right) with a ground out to the shortstop.
The Waves manufactured a run in the bottom of the third, as James Grandpre kicked things off with a double into the gap in left center. Grandpre would advance to third on a single to right, before coming home to score on a sacrifice fly to center field.
In bottom of the fifth, Austin Davidson led things off for the Waves with a solo home run off the scoreboard in right field. The Rams settled in and got the next two outs, before Pepperdine put together five runs off of timely hitting and effective baserunning.
Pepperdine's Corey Miller earned the victory after pitching eight innings and only allowing three hits.
VCU senior Seth Cutler-Voltz takes the loss, his first of the season, after throwing five innings and allowing six runs. Junior pitcher Brennan Huelse delivered three solid innings of relief, allowing just one hit and striking out four.
The Rams will be back at it tomorrow, meeting with the Waves for the second and final game of this two game series.
"Obviously we are going to come out and hopefully have a better pregame routine," added Keyes. "Hopefully we have a better focus and get a good outing from (sophomore RHP) Ryan Morrison. It's a typical midweek game, fifth game for us now in six days. We will see how we can handle it mentally and accept the challenge."
The first pitch for tomorrow's game is scheduled for 2 p.m., pacific time.


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EAGLE LAKE, Fla. – A three-run bottom of the seventh proved to be the deciding frame as the Lions of The College of New Jersey (4-7) overcame an early two-run lead to hand baseball (1-3) a 6-4 non-conference loss Saturday afternoon at Lake Region High School.
TCNJ initially held a two-run lead after three, but UMB got on the scoreboard in a big way with a four-run top of the fourth that was fueled by solid hitting up the middle of the field that allowed the Beacons to move around the bases.
The Beacons would hold that two-run lead over the Lions through two complete innings, until they were able to take on one run in the sixth to make it just a one-run game. TCNJ they rallied in the seventh and with a solid showing on the hill from Brendan Kelly, the Lions were able to hang on for the win.
Kelly, went all nine innings to earn his second win of the year, and allowed four runs on six hits, while also striking out four and walking one Beacon hitter.
For the Beacons Lucas Ilges (Gloucester, Mass.) made his first start of the very young season and had a solid afternoon going 6.1 innings. The righty struckout two and did not surrender a walk, but unfortunately was handed the loss.
At the plate, junior Jamill Moquette (Boston, Mass.) had his first multi-hit afternoon of 2013 as he went 2-for-4 with a run scored. Charles LaPaglia (Marshfield, Mass.) continued to swing his hot bat as he drove in a pair of runs on a two RBI single in the fourth. Kurtis White (Nashant, Mass.) and Todd Ezold (Westfield, Mass.) each picked-up an RBI in the fourth as well.
On the day, TCNJ recorded a combined 11 hits, with five layers finishing with a pair of hits. Garen Turner posted the only extra base hit of the day, a double to lead off the game changing seventh inning.
Baseball returns to action tomorrow at 11 a.m. when they take on Rowan University (N.J.) at the Lake Myrtle Field Complex in Auburndale.


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All- American Winner
Who: Gary Wiegand
Where: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
What: '70 Plymouth 'Cuda AAR
Gary purchased this fine AAR back in 1998, and it was already a trophy-winner (taking a third place in its class at the Mopar Nationals).
Since then, he's completely restored it—including the 340 Six Barrel under the hood, the 833 four-speed, and the 3.91-geared, Sure Grip–equipped rear end.
The body got its share of attention, as you can see (as did the no-console, stock dash interior), and six months after he started, Gary's AAR was ready for the show field again. Good thing he also restored the trunk, because he's needed it to haul home all the show gold he's won!
If this isn't enough, Gary's also got a same-color '70 Challenger T/A that we'll bring you in a future PentaStars.
Once A Twister
Who: Eddie Morrison
Where: Decatur, Indiana
What: '72 Plymouth Duster
Originally a green Slant Six–powered Duster Twister, this A-Body was owned by a high school friend of Eddie's, and he ended up with it 20 years later. Over the last few years, he's given it a total makeover inside and out.
Replacing the Leaning Tower of Power is a 360 with an LD340 intake, 750 Demon carburetor, MSD ignition, ceramic coated headers, and Flowmaster's Super 44 mufflers. It still has a Torqueflite automatic, but this time it's a 727, and there's a 3.55-geared Sure Grip filled 83⁄4 rear in back.
Outside, the stock green gave way to Plum Crazy during the '80s, and Eddie updated that color to the '10 Challenger's two-stage version of it after he had new quarters hung on the unibody. Centerline wheels, new AMD bumpers, and a Go-Wing complete the exterior.
Inside, Eddie re-covered the stock bench seats while adding a Tuff steering wheel, a pedal dress-up kit, and a '67 Valiant gauge cluster.
Power Giant
Who: Joanne Bartosh
Where: Webster, Wisconsin
What: '58 Dodge W100 Utiline pickup
"Power Giant" was the nickname for Dodge Trucks of the late '50s, including the W-Series 4x4s like this one that Joanne found in Arizona. Originally owned by Pinal County, AZ, its next owner built a camper for it and used it as a daily driver for years. When he passed on, his grandson inherited it, intending to restore it. But, unable to bring the '58 back to its original glory, he sold it to Joanne, provided that she bring it back to original.
Fortunately, the 230-inch flathead six, three-speed manual gearbox and two-speed transfer case were still on it and intact, as was the original cab and box. With help from her father, the mechanicals were all rebuilt, and the old steel smoothed out and refinished in modern DuPont paint in the original Klondike Yellow and Sandalwood.
Time and weather had taken their toll on the pine wood bed floor, which she replaced with red oak; plus the cab's seat, headliner, steering wheel, dash, and trim were all restored to fresh-from-Warren–Truck-Assembly-Plant condition.
Now that it's done, Joanne gets lots of compliments on it—plus lots of trophies, including Best in Show-Truck at the Mopar Nationals!
Duster 440
Who: Art Pesaturo
Where: West Palm Beach, Florida
What: '70 Plymouth Duster
Thought it was a Duster 340, didn't you? That's what Art wants people to believe…and that's why he put the repro "Duster 340" decals on when he built it.
Under the hood, it's all RB—the 440 block was bored .060-inch over, plus there's Mopar purple shaft camshaft, '67 915 heads, an MSD electronic ignition, a 750-cfm Holley double pumper, plus it breathes out through tti headers and Series 40 Flowmasters. Estimated output: 500 hp.
Backing it is a 23-spline A-833 four-speed with a hydraulic clutch conversion kit, and a McLeod 10½-inch flywheel, clutch and pressure plate, inside a Lakewood bellhousing, upstream of a Sure Grip–equipped 8¾-inch rear end.
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Street Scene Grill Installed In 2004 Ford Excursion
Reviewed By Robert C (Cassadaga, FL) Reviewed for a 2004 Ford Excursion —7/3/2010 7:43 AM
This is an extremely well made grill. It takes less than 5 minutes to pop out the old shell and install the Street Scene Grill. Quality and fit is very high.