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Sherrod is a veteran of New Guinea, of Attu, and of the dive bombing of Wake, but "I never was so scared in all my life as when our little boat headed for the beach through a barrage of Jap mortar shells and automatic weapons. The first two boats we met had already been disabled. I gritted my teeth and tried to smile at the scared Marine next...
...during that first day on Tarawa "dozens of Marines were being killed or wounded every five minutes. Anyone who ventured beyond the precarious beachhead we held behind the retaining wall was more likely to become a casualty than not. Jap snipers were hidden so carefully in the tops of coconut trees or under earth-mounded coconut logs that they could rarely be seen. Machine guns from slits in those fortifications covered the beach and the areas behind the beach, chattering incessantly as they raked the Americans...
force's chief, ordered a chase, pressed boldly to a point 90 miles below the big Jap base at Rabaul. Later he described the action : "With all the speed we had [we] finally closed the range to 8,000 yd." The Japs, apparently thinking the entire U.S. Fleet was attacking, scattered. Captain Burke ordered a concentration on one damaged ship."Our boys were firing so fast that many collapsed from gas fumes in their turrets and from sheer exhaustion. Finally we got close enough so I knew the shells from three ships were hitting him. He was burning...
Pacific. The Gilberts fell in 76 hours, the Marines on Tarawa won their bloodiest battle, and the U.S. Navy was launched on its drive through the Central Pacific. Logical next step: to the bigger, stronger Jap positions in the Marshall Islands...
Thanksgiving Day, between midnight and dawn, a scouting U.S. destroyer force intercepted six Jap light cruisers or de stroyers in the waters northwest of Bougainville. Two of the surprised enemy were quickly dispatched by torpedoes. The remainder turned stern in a welter of American shellfire. Hard-driving Captain Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke...