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Norman John Oswald Makin had come a long way. Last week the errand boy from Broken Hill, who entered Australian politics at 19, was host at a dinner for his fellow UNO leaders at the swank Savoy in London. Russia's terrifying Vishinsky was gaily talkative on his right, and China's Wellington Koo suavely quiet on his left...
...Norman Makin is a teetotaling Methodist lay preacher at home but he gave his guests wine and brandy while drinking orange juice himself. All week Norman Makin, chairman of the Security Council of the United Nations Organization, was a busy, genial host. Even so, he had an uneasy time...
...Raiders. He stormed ashore with them on Makin Island, killed one Jap with his rifle butt in hand-to-hand combat. The Raiders went on to Guadalcanal and there, during Carlson's famous 30-day patrol behind enemy lines, among other feats Smith knocked out two machine-gun nests and choked one Jap to death. Willing to volunteer for anything, he served a tour as an aerial gunner ("I wasn't doing anything at the time") and shot down two planes...
November: Nimitz' march across the Central Pacific began with the invasion of Tarawa and Makin...
Captain John survived the Liscome Bay's sinking off Makin Island in late 1943, Captain Henry, only non-flyer among the Annapolis-trained brothers, commanded a destroyer division, participating in many a Pacific raid. Lieut. Commander Quentin, youngest (27) of the five, bosses a fighter squadron aboard a Pacific carrier...