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Vince Moravec, fullback, was a regular on the New London sub base team that beat Harvard last year and was a Lehigh varsity wingback in 1942. Won a purple heart off Anzio...
...program under way. But field commanders soon found that white phosphorus, which not only screens but burns on contact, was more feared by the enemy than high explosive. The Navy was even more pleased with CWS's protective smokes. Not a ship was lost by air attack at Anzio after CWS touched off its smoke pots. At Okinawa even the Navy's big battlewagons were glad to come in under CWS's smoke to hide from the Kamikaze planes...
...Germans were not without their own radar countermeasures. They jammed American radar badly at the Anzio beach-head, and it was German jamming that enabled the Seharnhorst and Gneisnau to escape through the English Channel, by blocking out British radar along the whole Channel coast. After these early successes, however, the Germans and Japanese never again succeeded in seriously jamming Allied radar, because our radar was adapted to much higher frequencies -- microwaves -- which are much harder...
From the start, he was no communiqué commando. He made his first flight into enemy territory on the same Eighth Air Force raid on Wilhelmshaven in which the New York Times's Bob Post was killed. At Anzio the Germans shot out his bathtub when he wasn't in it; after Dday, planes strafed a rubber boat he was in, and missed again...
...June 18). He had studied the possibility of an amphibious "end run" around the Japanese lines, to the southern beaches. The idea had been rejected because the reefs and beaches would have made it impossible to supply a large enough force. Such a landing "could have turned into another Anzio beachhead, or worse," declared Buckner. At his advance headquarters on Guam, Fleet Admiral Nimitz endorsed Buckner's decisions without qualification...