Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held Vella Lavella to help rescue the cruiser Helena's survivors after the Battle of Kula Gulf - was one of the first five white men to reach Munda airport (he got there 24 hours before our troops marched in) -and in the first raid on Marcus Island he saw three new fighting tools first tested in battle: the Essex class carrier, the Independence type carrier, and the sensational Grumman Hellcat...
...their speed to around 400 m.p.h. The Japs were surprised, their defenses were weak. The big Forts laid a pattern of bombs across the main target, sprawling Nakajima Aircraft plant, eleven miles from Tokyo's center. They saw heart-warming fires spring up, then high-tailed for their island home...
Over the Sea. Victory of the week-even greater in immediate results than the pulling of the Limon plug-came when U.S. fighter bombers, P-40s and 47s, jumped a reinforcement convoy of three Japanese transports and a destroyer off Masbate Island, in the Visayan Sea northwest of Leyte. The Yankee fighters barreled straight in, let the bombs go at close range, then strafed the crowded transport decks while screaming soldiers leaped overboard to get away from the spreading fires and the strafing...
...quotation from General Oberst Baron Werner von Fritsch, former chief of the German General Staff: "the Nation with the best photographic interpretation will win the next war." The following posters trace the three phases of photographic interpretation in action, and include copies of reconnaissance reports on Japanese island fortifications, and pictures of enemy, installations from the Navy's operational files...
...Beta Kappa men among the graduates are Herman J. Engel '45 of Mount Vernon, New York, and Lowell House, Helimut J. Juretschke '46 of Long Island City, New York, and Adams House, George Selden '46 of Queens, New York, and Adams House, Saul Touster '46 of the NROTC, of Brooklyn, New York, and Eliot House, and William H. White '45 of Brookline and Lowell House...