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| Keywords: USS Honolulu after torpedohit 1.jpg The U S Navy light cruiser USS Honolulu CL-48 in Tulagi Harbor Solomon Islands for temporary repair of damage received when she was torpedoed in the bow during the Battle of Kolombangara USS Vireo AT-144 is assisting the damaged cruiser <br> Original caption Note the motivational sign at the Tulagi fleet landing July 1943 Reportedly erected by Captain Oliver O Scrappy Kessing USN commander of the Tulagi Naval base This sign is best explained in the words of the historian and participant in contemporary actions in the Solomons Samuel Eliot Morison writing in the later 1940s about war zone attitudes at the height of the Guadalcanal campaign thank God for Halsey exuding strength and confidence; for his slogan which 'Scrappy' Kessing painted up over the fleet landing at Tulagi in letters two feet tall KILL JAPS KILL JAPS KILL MORE JAPS This may shock you reader; but it is exactly how we felt We were fighting no civilized knightly war We cheered when the Japs were dying We were back to primitive days of Indian fighting on the American frontier; no holds barred and no quarter The Japs wanted it that way thought they could thus terrify an 'effete democracy'; and that is what they got with all the additional horrors of war that modern science can produce Quoted from History of United States Naval Operations in World War II Volume V The Struggle for Guadalcanal page 187 Official U S Navy photo http //www history navy mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-250000/80-G-259446 html 80-G-259446 from the U S Navy http //www history navy mil Naval History and Heritage Command 1943-07 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Honolulu CL-48 Battle of Kolombangara Torpedo damage Tulagi in World War II USS Vireo AM-52 | ||||
