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...little half-naked man on Wotje would not be surprised at the sight of the birds sweeping up from the horizon. For 22 successive days the birds had come, scattering destruction around his coral fortress. But these were new birds, smaller, wheeling towards him in greater swarms, coming down on him in screaming dives. Before the Emperor's little man burrowed frantically into his coconut and concrete pillbox he would comprehend that the enemy was moving into his Marshall Islands domain for the kill...
...morning of the Battle of Kula Gulf, Navy officers, aware that the gulf was full of dangerous coral reefs, ordered a quick chart. Such a job would ordinarily take at least three days. Army planes from Guadalcanal swarmed over the gulf, hastily shot 1,500 pictures covering nearly 500 sq.mi. In eight and a half hours the pictures were taken, developed, and assembled in a mosaic showing all the reefs. In the battle that night no U.S. ship ran aground...
...After that there is the Jesus factor - the unpredictable." Each new objective has its peculiar problem. The Marshall Islands differ from Guadalcanal, which is an 80-mile long island with a great jungle-covered spine and coconut groves, jungles and grassy flatlands along its shores. No coral reefs guard its coast. The Marshalls, like the Gilberts, are ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless, the Marshalls lie under the equatorial...
Wake, north of the Marshalls and vulnerable to an attack from Pearl Harbor, is the low-lying, V-shaped coral mound once so courageously defended by Major James P. Devereux and his Marines. Directly west of the Gilberts the isolated, three-by-four-mile mound of Nauru rises 225 feet above the sea. A coral reef encircles it closely. Because of its rich phosphate deposits (in addition to its strategic position), it is jealously held...
Commander Charles, 34, having somehow survived a plane-shattering crash, spent three months in the hospital, went out to the Pacific as a fighter pilot. Lieut. Richard, 27, a fighter pilot in one of the old Yorktown's famous squadrons, was in the scrap in the Coral Sea. He was shot down but survived to fight at the Battle of Midway. Twice decorated, he is now at Jacksonville (Fla.) teaching new airmen how to fight. Lieut. Quentin, 25, who commanded an antiaircraft battery on the Saratoga, is also at Jacksonville. While Richard and Quentin were having a breather...