Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: I believe that Robert Sherrod's story of Tarawa Island capture in your Dec. 6 issue is some of the finest on-the-spot reporting I have ever read. . . Sherrod portrayed very graphically the unquenchable spirit of our Marines. We can't be beat with a spirit like that...
Tensely the task ships waited for word. One hour after the takeoff it came: "Enemy taken by surprise." Kwajalein's roomy lagoon (80 miles long, 20 miles at the widest) was full of shipping: sampans, inter-island craft, seagoing merchantmen, tankers, warships. Said a U.S. pilot: "It was a dive bomber's paradise, and we turned it into a Japanese hell." The score after ten minutes of concentrated attack: two light cruisers, one oiler, three cargo transports sunk; one troop transport, three cargo transports damaged; grounded planes and shore installations hard...
Admiral Pownall's forces had still more business. From the Marshalls they headed for Nauru, the British phosphate island seized by the Japs in early 1942. There, Tarawa to Truk, the Jap Pearl Harbor, the American fleet, including battleships, shelled and bombed the enemy's airdrome and shore defenses. The score: ten Jap planes destroyed; two U.S. planes lost, one U.S. destroyer damaged by shore batteries...
...lieutenant commander when the fleet sallied out to take the Gilberts last month. Butch O'Hare "hellcatted" the island; he was the first to bring a carrier plane down on conquered Tarawa. A few nights later, off the Marshalls, Jap torpedo planes came over his flat-top again. Butch led the fighters from the deck. Flares shredded the darkness. "You take the side you want," he radiophoned his wingman. "I'll take the port," answered the wingman. "Roger!" said Butch. Tracers glowed around his plane. He sheered off, brought down one Jap, his ninth, then dropped into...
...Grand Old Man of U.S. sailing, perpetual commodore of the International Star Yacht Racing Association; in Manhattan. When the Star class of sloops (overall length 22 ft. 8¾ in.; beam 5 ft. 8¼ in.; draft approximately 3 ft. 4 in.) was designed in 1911, high-collared, Long Island Sounder Corry registered his Little Dipper as No.1. He won some 500 trophies, taught hundreds of amateur sailors, in 1939 was chairman of the international Star races at Kiel...