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...Twenty-four Jap warships were on the bottom: two battleships, four carriers, nine cruisers, three flotilla leaders and six destroyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Victory in Three Parts | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...three days before the battle, U.S. submarines in the South China Sea surfaced in darkness and radioed what they had seen: major Jap fleet units advancing northeast from Singapore. Then the subs went to work, sank two Atago-class heavy cruisers and heavily damaged a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Victory in Three Parts | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...Saipan scrawny, hungry Jap civilians were still coming out of caves where they had hidden since the battle began last June. Upon surrendering they are placed in a two-square-mile compound named "Camp Susupe" (after the nearby shallow lake), which now shelters 18,000 - 13,000 Japs, the rest Christian Chamorros, Koreans and Kanakas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OCCUPATION: At Camp Susupe | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

Flanagan moved on shore aboard an amphibious tractor whose motor fouled the walkie-talkie, failed to cross an airfield on foot when mortar fire pinned the marines down. Later, carbine in hand, but walkie-talkie still functioning, he joined a group of marines flushing out a Jap pillbox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: As I Was Saying . . . | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

Flanagan presently went on. The interruption had been caused by a Jap, flushed out of the pillbox, who had rushed Flanagan. The commentator had stopped talking long enough to shoot the Jap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: As I Was Saying . . . | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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