Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eventually be taken as a platform for launching robot bombs against Tokyo (615 miles away). The only thing the Japs can be sure of is that their home islands, soon to be mapped in detail by U.S. photo-interpreters, are the eventual objective. They cannot be sure whether the assault troops will come direct, or by way of the Kurils, Ryukyus, China or Korea. They cannot be strong at every point of possible attack. They can either spread their forces thin or concentrate them at the likeliest points. Either way, U.S. photoplanes will tell Fleet Admiral Nimitz what the dispositions...
Amphibious Medicine. To care for the sick and wounded the Navy has created "amphibious medicine" to go with its amphibious warfare. First in line are medical corpsmen, "the real heroes of our medical organization," who land on the beaches with assault troops. From the corpsmen stretches a chain of medical facilities-aid stations, field hospitals, hospital ships, advance base hospitals-which have saved the lives of 98 out of every 100 wounded...
Meanwhile, landing craft from Mariveles nosed around Corregidor to the south shore. As the assault waves charged up the beach of San José Bay, the Japs were trapped between airborne and seaborne forces. Jap resistance was as tough as usual, but there were not enough Japs to stem the rush...
Unfinished Business. For the Japanese, the question who was going to lead the final assault was academic; the more pressing questions were when & where...
...Japan was submitted to the House Military Affairs Committee last week by Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. He listed 17 critical items whose production must be stepped up 19% (tanks) to 300% (60mm. and 81-mm. mortars). Some others: heavy artillery ammunition (89%), airborne radar (32%), field and assault wire (50% plus), dry-cell batteries (27%), heavy-duty truck and bus tires...