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...fantastic story that some of the 20,000 civilians on the island (of whom we had interned 10,000) were killing themselves. I headed for the northern tip of Saipan, a place called Marpi Point, where there is a long plateau on which the Japs had built a secondary airfield. At the edge of the plateau there is a sheer 200-ft. drop to jagged coral below; then the billowing sea. The morning I crossed the airfield and got to the edge of the cliff nine marines from a burial detail were working with ropes to pick up the bodies...
Moscow did not say where Novikov was last week-but he was probably steaming around, as usual, from one forward airfield to another, watching his airmen, shooting the breeze with them, cheering them on. If he had been able to do as he pleased, 42-year-old Marshal Novikov would doubtless have been flying combat missions himself. But his friend Joseph...
...first he tried to be a more or less conventional war correspondent, covering the news as others did. The change began one day in Africa when the press corps was invited to meet Admiral Darlan. Scripps-Howard cabled him to be sure to attend. He was hurrying across an airfield to the interview when a swarm of Stukas swooped down, began splattering bullets around him. He dived into a ditch just behind a G.I. When the strafing was over he tapped his companion on the shoulder and said, "Whew, that was close, eh?" There was no answer. The soldier...
This week, after a thoroughgoing aerial bombardment, U.S. troops under Douglas MacArthur's command landed on tiny Noemfoor Island, 60 miles west of Biak off the north "New Guinea coast. They seized Karmiri airfield, went to work mopping up. On Biak, MacArthur's men already controlled an airfield only 880 miles from the Philippines. Noemfoor's field is 80 miles closer...
...thus far advanced. the lower end of the island became a secure and busy base for the final offensive to the north. Supplies flowed ashore at the rate of 10,000 tons a day-while the Japs, of course, had to fight on what they had. The captured Aslito airfield was renamed "Conroy Field," in honor of Colonel James Gardiner Conroy of the Army's 27th Division, who was killed at Makin last November...