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Battlefronts Writer John Walker is a veteran of the war in Europe (he was one of the last correspondents to escape from Warsaw before the Nazis goose-stepped in) but he got his Pacific baptism by fire when our troops swarmed ashore at Angaur...
...court with Publishers Farrar & Rinehart to settle a baffling question: How big is a book? Author Carmer claimed that he had fulfilled his Farrar & Rinehart contract with a 40,000-word history of The Submarine Sturgeon, famed for Lieut. Commander William L. Wright's terse description of its baptism in battle: "Sturgeon no longer virgin." The publishers claimed that he still owes them a book because his submarine history was not "full-length." New York Supreme Court Judge Lloyd Church decided to let a jury decide the legal length of a full-length book...
...days after the assault on Peleliu Admiral Wilkinson made his second move. He gave Major General Paul J. Mueller's 81st ("Wildcat") Army Division its baptism of fire by sending it ashore on southernmost, phosphate-producing Angaur Island, six miles south of Peleliu. Initial resistance was lighter this time...
...aviation experts and other insiders had become well acquainted in recent months with the Army's big new B-29 bomber, but to the public at large the Superfortress was a nebulous thing of mystery and hope. What the people waited for was the B-29's baptism in combat. That came last week, with a dramatic raid on Japan's steel industry (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Then the War Department allowed Boeing to tell nearly everything about its current prize package...
...casualties. Last December Major Robinson was killed in a plane accident while flying over the Hump. "It was bad. . . . We felt we just couldn't play-how could we be funny, and laugh, on the same field where the Major had died? . . . That was our first baptism of 'the show must go on' routine." After the death of Major Robinson, the new C.O. was Lieut. Jack Yule, a former professional actor (in Hump-Happy, he works the spotlight...