Word: kwajaleins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chickering saw at first hand the savage Bougainville campaign and the terror of jungle war. Then he shifted to the Central Pacific, where he went ashore at Kwajalein and watched the mop-up operations. He saw death all around...
...Ruppel, 41, is a stocky, 6-ft. hellraiser, raised in Brooklyn and adept at hurling four-letter words out of either side of his mouth. He went ashore with the Marines at Kwajalein, has since been relieved from active duty. His three-word journalistic credo is: "Lots of sock." He took over as $40,000-a-year executive editor two months ago. At first the rumbles were confined to the Herald-American building, where he was engaged in shaking up his staff. Then he got out on the street, in trick headlines. Sample Ruppel banner when the Allies retook...
...into the Navy back in 1919. He was just 16 when he went off to boot camp at Great Lakes. In 1927, at aviation school, he took his first uncertain solo hop. Fifteen years later Chief Machinist's Mate Smith flew off the Enterprise against Jap-held Kwajalein, and on June 3, 1942, worrying about a photograph he had meant to send to his wife, Smitty in an old TBD chugged into the Battle of Midway...
...battle for Leyte was ending. It had been a tough battle-as tough as any previously fought by U.S. divisions, veterans of Attu and New Guinea, Kwajalein and Guam, Makin and New Britain. It had taken longer than expected, and it had taken more U.S. casualties. But it had paid greater dividends than U.S. war planners had counted on. After getting over their first surprise, the Japanese had kept on pushing reinforcements from other Philippine islands into Leyte, where they had no time to learn the terrain or to assemble a full quota of heavy weapons...
...Marine pilots flying Corsairs still drew heavy antiaircraft fire from Jaluit, one of the Marshall atolls bypassed and hopelessly isolated in last February's capture of Kwajalein-although Jaluit is one of the most thoroughly bombed spots on earth...