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...safe and, for a Jap, a sane, solid way to build a reputation. The only trouble was that, no matter how safely an officer tried to set his course, there were obstacles-like calculating Spruance and wizened, air-wise Marc Mitscher. And they were not passive obstacles: they were closing around him like a tightening clamp. They were closing inexorably on the Empire where Shimada had worked so hard and dully to be a great naval captain...
...Jap artillery and mortar fire had cut down many a U.S. fighting man, and there was bloody fighting ahead. But the crushing logic of war was against the minions of the Emperor. Saipan was bound to fall...
...first D-day air strike began at,7 o'clock as dozens of dive bombers, torpedo bombers and, fighters tossed in the air over Saipan. There was still fairly intense antiaircraft fire, although the previous two days' strikes had completely eliminated all Jap air resistance...
...first three waves got in almost untouched. A battalion executive officer said: "As we hit the beach a scrawny little Jap jumped out of his trench. He was the only Jap we saw for some time after hitting the beach. There was a big rifleman right in front of him. The rifleman was so surprised he forgot to use his weapons. This 6-ft. guy of ours grabbed the Jap and started wrestling with him. He got him by the neck and shook him, swinging him all the way around. He had almost killed the Jap with his bare hands...
...yards to the right of the aid station five dead Japs lay in a hole beside their dismantled machine gun. It was more Japs than I saw in any other one spot that first day. They had evidently been taking their machine gun apart for withdrawal inland when a bomb or shell scored a direct hit on their hole. A souvenir-hunting Corpsman was removing the bayonet from one Jap's scabbard. A colonel, whose regimental command post was near by, shouted: "You'll get yourself mixed up with a booby trap. Now goddam it, leave him alone...