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...Target. Early reports indicated that the fight was going slowly against fanatical resistance. After making the beachhead, U.S. amphibious troops had given some ground before fierce Jap counterattacks, but they hung on. By the third day they were ready to press forward...
...south, General Douglas Mac-Arthur's forces battled for two more Jap airfields on Biak Island off New Guinea; his planes flew from previously captured Jap fields to blast such strong points as Truk in the Caroline Islands. It appeared that this whole, forbidding 2,000-mile chain had now been definitely bypassed...
...Word of an Officer. Nimitz has said that he is going to the coast of China. Although he was not bound by his officer's word to do so, that was still a likely part of the ultimate plan to defeat Jap land power. The glittering strategic openings which appeared this week...
...Japs fought desperately this week in their own front yard. In one of the greatest air battles of the Pacific war, hundreds of Jap planes took to the air, flew against a U.S. task force which was assaulting Saipan. Inside a few brief hours, said the U.S. Navy, more than 300 had been destroyed. On the island itself, U.S. troops fought...
...assault on the key Jap base in the Marianas had begun nine days before. For four days a U.S. naval force had pounded Saipan. Bombers from U.S. carriers had carried in their loads of destruction. For two days U.S. battleships, cruisers, destroyers had unloaded their long, hot guns on the island...