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...striking-force concept, the Japanese became infatuated with it, extended it until they were imprisoned within their own task-force psychology.* The method worked well in the southern seas, when any Jap task force was certain to be stronger than any Allied task force. It failed partially in the Coral Sea (where the Japanese first lost a carrier, the Shoho); it failed utterly at Midway...
...maintain air bases on the "Northeast Staging Route to Europe." They had manned the $1,700,000 runways, barracks and hospital at The Pas, the $9,300,000 establishment at Churchill on the west shore of Hudson Bay,* the $7,000,000 base at Southampton Island's Coral Harbor (socalled because of the tropical fossils found there). But the great air ferry route was hardly used: the route via Labrador and Iceland proved more feasible. The first job of the ten Army nurses stationed at the Churchill base was to deliver an Indian baby who was promptly nicknamed...
...successor is 57-year-old Rear Admiral Frederick Carl Sherman, who was skipper of the Lexington when she was sunk in the world's first carrier battle, in the Coral Sea. Sherman's motto: "Kill the bastards scientifically." McCain's relief is 60-year-old Vice Admiral John Henry Towers, who has been morosely watching the war from an administrative position as Deputy Commander in Chief (for air) of the Pacific Fleet, a job which he is very glad to leave...
...carriers, Pacific Fleet, was running task, forces of big ships as though they were destroyer divisions: the emphasis was on speed and maneuver. But after his first hell-for-leather raids on the Jap islands - the Gilberts and Marshalls, Wake and Marcus - his force missed the Battle of the Coral Sea by hours. Halsey went back to Pearl Harbor on May 26, 1942, suffering from a skin disease which laid him up for weeks. He missed the Battle of Midway, decisive engagement of the war against Japan...
Kiefer, who wore a helmet with "Dixie" boldly stenciled on it, had been executive officer of the old Yorktown at the Coral Sea battle (where he won the D.S.M.), and at Midway (where the York sank and he got the Navy Cross for heroism). There he had jumped from the ship and shattered his right leg and ankle...