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...Navy was concerned, now was the worst possible time for a man to quit. With the quickening of the war in the Pacific, the greatest need was for rapid ship repair. The Navy no longer made any bones about it: its ships were taking punishment from desperate Jap bombers and Kamikaze planes. One day last week Fleet Admiral Nimitz admitted damage to eleven of his light naval units in the space of 18 hours...
...week's end the 2,200-ton destroyer Laffey limped into Seattle's Elliott Bay from an encounter off Okinawa (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Six suicidal Jap pilots had smashed their planes into her. Thousands of man-hours would be required to put her back in the war. One day, more ships than could be accommodated at repair docks waited in Elliott Bay. Repair work was given top priority...
Fighting was like that last week on Okinawa. In one Jap counterattack, a U.S. company was reduced from 240 effectives to two, and three company commanders were killed by artillery. In another Jap assault, which lasted from dusk until the next afternoon, U.S. cooks, bakers and clerks were shoved into the fighting line...
...tangled, vicious fight marked by constant Jap infiltration behind our lines, by Jap ambushes and night raids. Americans had to fight even to reach the 24th Division cemetery, now well behind the front lines, so they could bury the dead. Said one officer: "The woods are full of Japs. You go through them, and they close in right behind you." The country is heavily brushed flats broken by precipitous hills honeycombed with Jap installations. On Hill 550, a long ridge from which sheer knobs jut at intervals, one knob held 30 pillboxes and gun positions...
...precipitous as it once seemed. Unless the Jap war ends with unexpected speed, half the hill may be climbed before...