“All hands to general quarters. Prepare to attack major portion of the Japanese fleet,” Evans said, according to Cox. “All engines ahead flank. Commence making smoke and stand by for a torpedo attack. Left full rudder.”
Later on in the fight, Evans saw the Japanese had targeted the escort carrier USS Gambier Bay, and he proceeded to give what Johnston’s gunnery officer, Lt. Robert Hagen, called “the most courageous order I’ve ever heard: ‘Commence firing on that
cruiser, draw her fire on us and away from Gambier Bay,’” Cox wrote.
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