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While Halsey's Third Fleet was rampaging through Far Eastern seas in the late summer of 1944, engaging in 21 combat actions, his carriers also had to undertake 26 logistic (i.e., supply and troop movement) operations. But as a result of logistics successfully carried out, when the Jap fleet was sighted on Oct. 23, Halsey's fast carrier task force, which had been away from its base for almost two months and had fought 16 actions in that time, was able to engage and smash a Jap fleet in the battle for Leyte Gulf...
...plans officer, who had said (a week before Dec. 7) that Japanese airmen would never surprise Pearl Harbor. In BuNav, Nimitz had seemed a hard executive, despite his amiable manner. He had found the Bureau slack, and had made it taut. The officers whose careers had seemed blasted by Jap bombs and torpedoes expected Nimitz to sweep them all out to some naval Siberia and to bring in his own team. They trudged to the new CinCPac's conference...
...Battle of Midway, Halsey was ailing and unavailable. Nimitz sent Raymond Ames Spruance out first with two carriers, then Frank Jack Fletcher with the Yorktown. As senior, Fletcher took overall command, but when the Yorktown retired from the fight, crippled, Spruance carried on. The victory ended the Jap threat to Hawaii, the Panama Canal and the U.S. itself. It was the turning point of the Pacific war. In announcing the triumph, Nimitz punned: "We are about midway to our objective...
From the 13,243 Japanese civilians captured on Saipan last summer, U.S. soldiers picked 500, polled them Gallup fashion. Purpose: to get an approximation of what the Jap in the street thinks about the war, the U.S., democracy...
...This camp," observes Dr. Busch in the Mydans novel, "is no place for personal dignity. The humiliating lack of privacy was the worst: "Two hundred peoper having ten rooms," the Jap officer had shouted. "Radies having one room. . . ." The Jap commandant even banned hand-holding ("He said such displays of affection offend the morals of his guards"). Food was scarce and nauseating. "The cereal in the dishpans was brown and shimmering on top from the thick layer of crawling weevils that covered it. ..." Under the taut, enervating pressures of the camp, the internees' characters changed, warped, withered...