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...marines proved they had plenty of guts. They held their ground until, in November, the resurgent Navy under "Bull" Halsey finally drove the Jap warships out of the area and put 2nd Marine Division and Army reinforcements ashore. Among Americans, Guadalcanal has become a household word, as familiar as Bunker Hill and Gettysburg...
...major snafus), then tackled its next assignment-Peleliu. It was the division's first strongly opposed landing and its bloodiest, hardest battle of the war. The Navy and air preparation had knocked out only a small part of the cleverly protected Jap installations. On the beach the marines were caught in a tremendous torrent of fire. The division took Peleliu at a cost of 6,000 casualties out of 23,000 men (of whom only 9,000 were infantry). The real tragedy was that the price had been paid in vain. Peleliu was to have been a base...
...Launched at Kearny, N.J. in 1945 and named after the famed, ill-fated 6,000-ton cruiser Juneau, which was blown up by a Jap torpedo on Nov. 14, 1942 at the southern end of "The Slot," the strip of water running northwest-southeast through the Solomon Islands. All but ten of the Juneau's crew were lost, including the five Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, Iowa...
...Struble, 56, Joy's top subordinate and commander of the Seventh Fleet, an "amphib man," in World War II directed landings in Normandy and the Philippines. Preparing for an attack on Corregidor in 1945, short, twinkle-eyed Arthur Struble was told that the cruisers needed to silence Jap guns on "The Rock" would be late. He said, "Let's go ahead without...
...potatoes on a farm in Hershey, Neb. (pop. 487), nobody paid much attention to the color of Ben's skin. The day after Pearl Harbor, Kuroki enlisted. On the train to camp, he heard for the first time what became an agonizingly familiar question: "What's that Jap doing in the Army?" To answer it, Japanese-American Ben Kuroki volunteered as an Air Force gunner...