Jim Downey
speaker
621 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Jim Downey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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has but one active carrier in the Pacific, the Enterprise.
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And yet, here's what the box score doesn't capture.
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Japan is losing something harder to replace than ships.
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Those brilliant, battle-hardened aviators who made the Kido Butai so terrifying in the opening months of the war are bleeding away.
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High casualties through 1942 have left Japan with rookie replacements.
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The Empire of the Rising Sun is winning some of these exchanges, sure.
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But quietly, it's losing the air war.
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Still, Guadalcanal's fate is not yet sealed.
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The Tokyo Express keeps running, and with the Enterprise limping to Pearl Harbor for repairs, ComSupac Vice Admiral Bilbo Halsey has to lean on Rear Admiral Daniel Callahan's 13 ships.
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Just cruisers and destroyers.
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No carriers.
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No battleships.
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hardly a match for the far larger Japanese force, inclusive of two battleships now approaching via the slot.
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But in war, one doesn't always have the luxury of a fair fight.
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And on the night of November 12, 1942, Dan Callahan sails out to meet the foe anyway.
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Thus begins the naval battle of Guadalcanal.
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It's about 1.30 in the morning, November 13th, 1942.
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We're on the cruiser USS San Francisco in the Sea Lark Channel north of Guadalcanal.
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And as a tropical storm rages, Rear Admiral Dan Callahan is receiving disconcerting news from another ship in his task force, the light cruiser USS Helena.
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Two clusters of contact blips have emerged from the northwest.
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