Word: kwajaleins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-five-year-old Hachiya, who had fought at Kwajalein and Eniwetok, finally landed on Leyte with the 7th Division. On Dec. 30, when a man was needed to cross a valley under fire and scout Japanese positions, Hachiya volunteered. He had worked out ahead of his protecting patrol, when he suddenly staggered with a sniper's bullet in his belly. He emptied his rifle at the enemy, and crawled back to the U. S. lines, gave his scout's report. Soon after, Private Hachiya died...
...Pacific. To keep its fleets operating across 3,000 miles of ocean in one direction, 7,000 miles in another, the civilian Navy has set up 900 shore establishments, including 300 advance bases, some as large as Peoria, Ill. Problems of logistics are vast. Equipment for the base at Kwajalein was ordered 17 months before the island was actually taken from the Japs. By the time the Kwajalein units were under way, preparations had begun for bases in the Marianas...
Task Force to Truk. The new team was tuned up in training raids against Marcus and Wake Islands. It showed its power in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. But not until Kwajalein was secured did the seaborne air power of the U.S. Navy show its immense reach. Then Admirals Spruance and Mitscher set off with the fast carriers and fast battleships to neutralize Truk. Task Force 58 was on its road to glory...
...tireless reporter, sensitive to the sights, sounds, horror and humor of war. His cables reflected that sensitiveness. In the Kwajalein cleanup his eyes had caught the sight of a dead Jap's bearded waxen face sprinkled with the rubble of a wrecked pillbox, on Leyte the pathos of G.I.s celebrating Christmas by decorating twigs with Christmas wrappings and empty cigaret packs...
...first of those many gunbarrel shots of combat in color which, in their effortless achievement at once of superhuman force and grandeur and of jewel-like delicacy, might well make this film the envy of good poets and painters for the rest of time. Later on, over Truk and Kwajalein and the Marianas, these shots-plus some hair-raising ones of crash-landings on the carrier deck-heap one astonishment so thickly upon another that the eye and mind can hardly keep pace. For violent air action and for pure visual magnificence, The Fighting Lady is not likely ever...