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...arguments. He conceded that victory might have come sooner if there had been a unified department "in the period when we were struggling to build up power." He emphasized the waste inherent in a dual system, e.g., duplicate hospitals, one Army and one Navy, side by side on Espiritu Santo. General Marshall also anticipated one of the main lines of the Navy's counterattack: he urged that Congress should not bother itself with details now, but should lay down the broad principle of a unified military department-the details would work themselves out by evolutionary process...
Bulldozers to Beer. The story of Manus' building was typical. Seabees, trained on the Pacific coast for this specific job, landed there six months ago on the heels of the invading Army. Their boss was Commodore James E. Boak, who built the Espiritu Santo cruiser base...
...over the Pacific-on Tarawa, on Eniwetok, on Midway, on Guadalcanal and Bougainville; at Noumea and Espiritu Santo and wherever our fleets may be-our soldiers, sailors and marines are now reading TIME each week while that same issue is still fresh on the newsstands here at home. For example...
...Raft. A West Pointer, and an Air Corpsman since 1924, Twining headed the Thirteenth Air Force when it was formed in January 1943 to support the drive up the Solomon Islands. A few days later, Twining was flying in a Fortress from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal to Espiritu Santo. A violent tropical storm forced the plane down at sea, and General Twining and his men were adrift in rubber rafts for six days, living on fish and seagulls, before patrol bombers rescued them...
...flyers-Marines and Naval aviators from Guadalcanal and Army heavy bombers from Espiritu Santo-struck at the enemy. They damaged one heavy and one light cruiser. Next day the carrier task forces met. A U.S. carrier was severely damaged, a destroyer sunk. U.S. flyers damaged two Japanese carriers...