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...bodyguard to an American of Japanese descent who was risking his life to act as an interpreter for us. He was a target for both Jap and American bullets...
Whenever the warships took a breather, land-based Army and carrier-based Navy planes streaked in to drop bombs by the hundreds. There were plenty of 2,000-pounders; Tarawa had proved that Jap defenses could hold up under half-ton bombs...
...pounding were the main island targets assaulted. When the troops got ashore, there was some machine-gun and sniper fire from debris and coconut trees. There were a few stubborn pockets of real resistance. But mostly there were only twisted remnants of coastal guns, shattered pillboxes, charred and broken Jap bodies. The defenders who survived the bombardment seemed dazed, frightened...
...capture of Kwajalein tore open the Jap's far-flung outer defense, already punctured at the Gilberts and ruptured in the south. Allied forces pressed against Japan's inner ocean frontier. Now, with the initiative completely in their hands, Allied strategists had to decide: What next...
Kwajalein, even more than the Gilberts, had shown the capabilities of the now mighty Pacific Fleet. Navy officers had once worried about mooring warships in Pearl Harbor. In a bold and disdainful gesture last week the Navy moored its ships inside Kwajalein's landlocked lagoon, 375 miles from Jap-held Kusaie and less than half that distance from bases which the Japs still occupy in the Marshalls group. The Navy, with its new carrier strength and antiaircraft fire (see p. 65), was no longer nervous about land-based aircraft...