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Tyrone Power's motor torpedo boat is destroyed by Jap fighter planes on the beach of Leyte, and it in too late for him to get transportation out of the Islands. He tries to get to Australia in a little sail-boat with a crew of flyers. The boat capsizes three days later and they have to swim eight miles back to Leyte...
Meanwhile, Power is cashing in on the recruiting promises. He has learned a trade. He is running a series of radio stations for MacArthur and smoking cigarettes from a pack which says "I shall return . . . Doug MacArthur." His commander will not let him fight, even though killing a Jap gave him "his first real satisfaction" since his MTB burned...
...takes his orders from Vice Admiral Charles Joy, who is MacArthur's Far East naval commander, and MacArthur takes his from the Chiefs of Staff. The carriers are commanded by folksy, twinkling Rear Admiral John ("Uncle John") Hoskins, who in World War II lost a foot in a Jap attack on the light carrier Princeton. Every Navy officer in the Pacific knows that Radford's appraising blue...
...Emergency Turn 9." In 1943, with the training program running like a watch, Radford persuaded his superiors to send him to sea, fought his first major action as commander of a carrier group in the U.S. invasion of the Gilberts (Tarawa-Makin). He had a prescient hunch that the Jap carriers, fed up with heavy daytime losses, would launch an attack at night. With Lieut. Commander Edward H. ("Butch") O'Hare, famed Congressional Medal winner, Radford worked out a radar-equipped night fighter system. When -sure enough-Jap torpedo planes were reported approaching after dusk, O'Hare took...
That night the North Koreans tried to march their prisoners across the Naktong, but U.S. fire stopped them. "If you slipped they kicked you," said Pfc. Manring. "We started calling 'Mizu, mizu!' That's Jap for water. But they said 'No, no, American planes go tatatata.' Boy! Are they afraid of airplanes! When our planes come over they kept real quiet and gave us branches to put over our heads...