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...nation that "there is only a hair's breadth between victory and defeat," warned that Japan must pay a high price for victory: a national service law, all-out production of ships and planes, increased taxes, spiritual mobilization on the frenzied Yamato pattern exhibited at Tarawa, Makin, Attu...
...that the War Department had proclaimed its "vested interest" in news of its doings, would the Army proceed to suppress such items as the Patton case, the poor start of the Attu campaign, and try to make the U.S. public think that everything is hunky-dory...
...riel Command. In these endurance runs of new planes, A.S.C. experts watch for parts which wear quickly, to be ready for replacement demands. By the time a new model (like the B29) is in the field, the parts it will need are ready to hand. In the Attu campaign, parts flown in by the Air Transport Command arrived before the planes for which they were ordered...
Sherrod is a veteran of New Guinea, of Attu, and of the dive bombing of Wake, but "I never was so scared in all my life as when our little boat headed for the beach through a barrage of Jap mortar shells and automatic weapons. The first two boats we met had already been disabled. I gritted my teeth and tried to smile at the scared Marine next...
Chickering must have made quite a target these past few weeks, for he is about the biggest correspondent between Attu and Port Moresby (210 pounds, six feet four) and he has been in the thick of the fighting ever since he went back to the Pacific front for us early in September...