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...Sherrod, now military correspondent in TIME'S Washington bureau, went ashore with U.S. troops at Attu, Tarawa and many another Pacific beachhead during World War II. After the war, as senior correspondent in the Far East, he traveled thousands of miles on a roving assignment for TIME, following the news in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific. He has almost completed an extracurricular activity-the official Marine aviation history of World...
Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy, 55, commander of U.S. naval forces in the Far East, has the cruiser Juneau and four destroyers. Tall, quiet Charles Joy is a gunnery expert who practiced the technique of shore bombardment at Guadalcanal, the Aleutians and Attu...
TIME'S Robert Sherrod, veteran of New Guinea, Attu, Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima, remembers that these stories had as much to do with TIME'S popularity among overseas servicemen as the action reports. Says Sherrod...
...pass the time on their long hops. Cliff: "We're lost, but we're making good time." George: "We're broke, but we're having a lotta fun." On their most hazardous leg, 1,600 miles over open water between Japan and Shemya (near Attu), they got an escort of Army...
...rushing construction of one of the world's biggest airfields-a super super-bomber base with three-mile runways. The Army is building a spur rail line to serve the base, is pouring concrete barracks at Elmendorf Field, improving Ladd Field, repairing installations at Nome. At Adak and Attu in the Aleutians, the Navy is spending $14 million on construction...