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...took off in the early afternoon with clouded mountains beckoning; by darkness we had crossed into Jap-held territory. The Superfortress' four big engines throbbed rhythmically under the careful hands of her pilot, 26-year-old Captain Robert Root. Beside him, watchful and calm, was his copilot, blond Lieut. Clifford Anderson. I sat on the cold escape hatch just opposite Lieut. Peter Coury, the flight engineer, who kept steady watch on his multitude of instruments...
...bowed low and exchanged greetings. With the battle line only a few miles away, they said, Jap planes would be over any minute. "What can we do?" an interpreter asked...
...week when U.S. air bombardment of the homeland began. U.S. amphibious forces, from what was probably the mightiest naval task group ever assembled, stormed ashore on heavily fortified Saipan. They were only 1,500 miles from Tokyo. Previous landing assaults had been against the outer perimeter of Jap defenses. But this was disaster close to home...
Wide-awake Jap civilians could foresee greater trials. So could the bemedaled staff at Imperial Headquarters. The assault in the Marianas, one of the great strategic blows in the war against Japan, raised new questions for the Japs, even as it created new strategic openings...
Nutcrackers I and II. In the Marianas Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of Pacific Ocean Areas, is forging a close-in nutcracker to splinter the hard shell of Jap defenses. While his Fifth Fleet under Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (only "a portion" of his Pacific force, as Nimitz thoughtfully pointed out) battered a way toward Japan from the south, another "portion" swept down the northerly Kuril Island chain last week and bombarded Matsuwa, 1,075 miles from Tokyo...