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...years was toppled from office by the chiefs of the armed forces. Then, in a last, fateful act of Hitler-like defiance, he killed himself, leaving behind a bitter, eloquent testament heaping all blame for his failure-and Brazil's plight-on a wicked combination of his domestic ene mies and "international financial groups...
...there began the thrill of the chase and the underseas tension that were the normal climate of the subs. As in all forms of combat, the best of training was only partial preparation for the first attack and counterattack. Moving in for the kill, lining up the first ene my ship in the sights, the torpedoes crashing into the sides of the target - those things made any crew jubilant. But then came the Japanese destroyers, the deep submersion, and the suspense at 300 feet below while depth charges searched for the sub, shaking her like a light bulb...
...last Japanese defense line on south ern Okinawa, along the Yaeju-Dake escarpment, was no more. A handful of ene my troops had manned its deep caves, hid den artillery and automatic weapons for a few days; then U.S. weight and power col lapsed them...
...southern column captured the major airfield two miles south of the ene my base. While bearded, dirty shock troops cleared the field of obstacles, the code "cafeteria lunch" flashed to Mer rill's headquarters. By the time the field was cleared, the first gliders and transport planes arrived with fresh Chinese troops, piled in reinforcements to carry the battle northward through Myitkyina's back door...
...because his superior officers would not listen to him as he cried: "The protection and armament of even our most recent battleships are glaringly inferior to those of our possible enemies. . . . One or more of our ships would suffer humiliating defeat at the hands of an equal number of ene-of the Torpedo-Boat Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet. In 1916 he became Commander of the Nevada, then...