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...these strikes, 300 Superforts flew from Saipan, Tinian and (for the first time) from Guam. Each carried seven to eight tons of 500-lb. clusters of new M69 incendiary bombs. Each cluster comprised scores of 6-lb. incendiary bombs containing a jelly-gasoline compound. The total: about 700,000 incendiaries...
...smoking a cigaret now. Dr. Silvis said: "I put lipstick on him" - meaning that color had returned. He added an aside: "I think I'm going to save that guy." They had cut the private's clothes off. There was a cluster of guts as big as two fists sticking out of the left side of his abdomen, though the hole in the belly was thumb-sized...
First to sport the new five-star insigne, on the flag of his flagship* last fortnight, was Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. It consisted of a cluster of five stars set so as to form a pentagon, a symbolism which could scarcely escape the witty attention of junior officers on duty far from Washington. By last week, other signs of the new top rank for U.S. officers appeared...
...dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have got a ribbon there for everything but Shays's Rebellion...
They had lost the initiative long ago; now to get at Leyte Gulf and its cluster of soft-shelled U.S. transports, their war ships must pass through narrow waters...