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...Southwest Pacific, U.S. Seabees, who boast that they can repair anything from a watch to a battleship, turned to another activity in their spare time. A Navy officer reported they were making grass skirts and selling them to the natives. Reason for the market: the Seabees' skirt is better than the native product...
Handsome, 50-year-old Don Moon, fourth in his class (1916) at the Naval Academy, served on a battleship in World War I, made his way quietly up the naval ladder between wars. In 1942, as commander of a destroyer squadron, he helped support the landings on North Africa and was officially cited for "exemplary conduct" and "leadership under fire." For Admiral Moon, as far many another officer, the invasion of Normandy was the high point of a career. He played his part with precision and assurance...
...sunk; two tankers sunk; a destroyer sunk; another Hayataka-class carrier "severely damaged and left burning furiously"; a Zuikaku-class carrier hit by three 1,000-lb. bombs; a light Zuiho-class carrier hit by two aerial torpedoes; another light carrier perforated by seven 500-pounders; a Kongo-class battleship, three cruisers, two destroyers and three tankers damaged. Of the few Jap planes remaining to defend their ships 26 had been shot down...
...going to feel the warm smile of history. But he had worked hard to win it. No less than six times he had been assigned to the General Staff; the first five were considered successful. Between these tours of duty he had commanded a submarine division, a cruiser, the battleship Hiei, finally (in 1940 and early 1941) the Third Fleet, entrusted with blockade of the China coast toward which Nimitz now aims...
...Tapotchau. Already the sugar-mill town of Charan Kanoa was afire or smoking at several points and there was some smoke rising from Garapan from the bombing and shelling of the previous two days. At 5:45 the big guns began-gunfire from 5-inch destroyer to 16-inch battleship shells. Tinian Island, five miles south of Saipan, got its share of shells against artillery emplacements and other targets...