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Shelley wrote a novel (The Open City) about her experiences, did some pieces for FORTUNE'S issue on Japan, and, late in 1944, went back to the Pacific. Her beat was Guam, Saipan, the Philippines-where she saw the Japanese surrender-and then, Japan...
...Guam, Jap stragglers, who had hidden out for 16 months, ambushed four U.S. marines who had gone out to investigate reports of gunfire in the jungle. Despite serious wounds, one of the four managed to get away, crawled to a native village...
...Lost Signal. Some of the other questions about the sinking of the Indianapolis are beyond the scope of the present court, may be answered later. It is known that her estimated arrival time at Leyte was sent out by radio from Guam. But was it ever received at Leyte, and if so, by whom? Were Leyte port authorities negligent in not reporting her overdue? Were there defects in the air searches (flown from three nearby bases) which failed to detect the cruiser's giant oil slick for three days after she sank...
What had changed his opinion since he returned from the isolation of Guam to the grim realities of Washington poli tics? He said that the integration of U.S. effort achieved in the closing days of the Pacific War had convinced him that everything would always be all right, even under the present divided setup...
...Comdr. Morison's adventures was unique in that it didn't quite happen. On the staff of Rear Admiral Walden D. Ainsworth aboard the U.S.S. Honolulu, he was on hand for the initial bombardment of Guam. "By that period of the war our fire support ships steamed so close to the coast that a native of Guam on the Honolulu could see his house, and proposed that he and I go ashore in a rubber boat as a two-man task force to give his friends the good word. Fortunately this plan did not appeal to Admiral Ainsworth...