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...Another: NBC's veteran John W. Vandercook, broadcasting from London on D-day morning, said: "This is John W. Vandercook returning you now to John W. Vandercook in New York...
...Fifth War Loan needed a shot in the arm. D-day had come and gone, spurring individuals to buy a vast swatch of E bonds. The B-29 raid on Japan sold several million dollars worth more, leading the Tokyo radio to explain that the U.S. bond drive was "one of the greatest swindles in American history." But now sales were lagging almost everywhere. So the Treasury Department razzle-dazzled a lukewarm public with more & more sex, sentiment and stunts...
Last week, on D-day plus 17 on the invasion calendar, it was reopened with a bang. In Moscow 60 salutes from 224 of Moscow's victory guns thundered the news-20 salutes for each of Joseph Stalin's three orders of the day. Never before had the taciturn man from Georgia issued so many victory proclamations in 24 hours...
...dawn on D-day Saipan looked like a low-lying prehistoric monster whose high, rising spine was Mt. 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...
...first D-day air strike began at,7 o'clock as dozens of dive bombers, torpedo bombers and, fighters tossed in the air over Saipan. There was still fairly intense antiaircraft fire, although the previous two days' strikes had completely eliminated all Jap air resistance...