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...around the Japanese lines, to the southern beaches. The idea had been rejected because the reefs and beaches would have made it impossible to supply a large enough force. Such a landing "could have turned into another Anzio beachhead, or worse," declared Buckner. At his advance headquarters on Guam, Fleet Admiral Nimitz endorsed Buckner's decisions without qualification...
Bubbly, jocular General of the Army Henry H. Arnold dropped in on Guam to hunt up parking space for some of his 12,000 European combat airplanes, and prepared to realign air force commands for the big Pacific push. While 520 of his Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortresses bombed shuddering Osaka for the fifth time, proud Hap Arnold outlined to correspondents the kind of punishment U.S. airmen planned for Japan...
...headquarters on a Guam hilltop, Major General Curtis Emerson LeMay added up the results of three months' massive B-29 attacks on Tokyo. Tough-minded, realistic Curt LeMay claimed nothing of which he could not be sure. The things of which he could be sure...
Yearling's Growth. The yearling Twentieth Air Force was feeling its oats. It had virtually withdrawn from its first, hand-hewn bases in China, and shifted planes from there to Tinian. It had another new wing in the Marianas, operating from a great new field on Guam. The weight of its blows had been stepped up 100% in two months, and would soon be further increased...
Aboard a submarine at Guam, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (the Navy's No. 1 submariner) did honor last week to the feats of the undersea service-feats which must still remain unsung for reasons of security. Awarding medals to officers and enlisted men wearing the dolphin insignia, Nimitz announced their total accomplishment in the war against Japan: 1,119 ships sunk, aggregating 4,500,000 tons-more than half the ocean-going tonnage with which Japan started the war. In the last year, 2,000,000 tons went to the bottom...