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...quarter-hour. It was about time for the regular overseas news casts. Within slightly more than two hours, overseas correspondents of NBC, CBS and Blue had been broadcasting the first local reactions - from Paris, Rome, London, Luxembourg. Before the night was over, the reports were coming in from Germany, Guam, Okinawa...
...Whirl. In Chicago, headquarters of Rotary International announced the readmission to membership of the Rotary Club of Guam...
Buckner was still in Alaska, still watching, when Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz launched the drive across the Central Pacific that was to cut a fiery path through Tarawa, Makin, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Peleliu, Angaur, Iwo Jima. Battles were fought with companies, regiments, divisions. That march was still in progress last June, when Buckner at last got the word to go to Washington, then to Hawaii to organize a full-fledged army...
...downright miraculous that a high proportion of the Superfortresses used in the first two strikes were ready for use again at Osaka, again at Kobe, and in a repeat raid on Nagoya-all within ten days. Some of LeMay's ground crews on Saipan, Tinian and Guam, worked 48 hours nonstop to compass this miracle...
Along with the praise came inevitable murmurs that the sculptural symmetry of the picture was "too good to be true." Last week short (5 ft. 6 in.), bespectacled, mustached Associated Press Photographer Rosenthal, 33, camera veteran of Guadalcanal, Guam and Peleliu got back to the U.S. Said he: the picture was taken without one word of direction by him, was completely unposed...