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There was embarrassed silence when she quoted the Chinese proverb: "It takes little effort to watch the other fellow carry the load"; and when she made her most pointed thrust: "Midway and the Coral Sea are . . . merely steps in the right direction...
...flashy stars; its battles are not embellished by Hollywood imagination. It is dedicated to the simple and excellent purpose of showing how U.S. airmen fight. The Mary Ann and her crew, a composite of many ships and men, fight in every important air battle from Pearl Harbor to the Coral Sea, including a re-enactment of Colin Kelly's attack on the battleship Haruna. In this story of one ship, Air Force rolls up all the excitement of the air war in the Pacific...
...pancake landing. Almost a wreck, the Mary Ann is ordered burned by the Army air commander. But she has one more big fight left in her. While ground troops hold off the Japs, the Mary Ann's crew patches her together in the jungle. Over the Coral Sea she joins fighters, torpedo and dive-bombers in a tremendous attack on the Jap Fleet, limps away after the battle, lands on an Australian beach...
When the U.S. Navy was making ready to take the offensive in the Pacific I didn't say, "Where is the U.S. Navy? At the bottom of the ocean!" Later, when the U.S. Navy kicked the fangs out of the Japs in the Coral Sea, at Midway and at the Solomons, I didn't say, "It was a cinch that as soon as we got going we'd clean...
Distinguished Flying Cross (airmen only). Army, 345; Navy, 377; Marines, 34. Sample case: Ensign Harry Bonaparte Gibbs. As a combat pilot, in two successive days' fighting in the Coral Sea Battle, he shot down a Jap plane and helped sink or damage a Jap carrier...