Huge headlines: "15 ships blasted at Guadalcanal ... 6 cruisers, 1 destroyer, sunk ... crushed in day and night combat." They've coined a new superlative: "thunder-sunk." As one said to me, when British and German reports come in they differ but can be reconciled to give some idea of the battle; when Japanese reports come in, they defy reality and can't be reconciled with U.S. reports.