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Buckner was still in Alaska, still watching, when Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz launched the drive across the Central Pacific that was to cut a fiery path through Tarawa, Makin, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Peleliu, Angaur, Iwo Jima. Battles were fought with companies, regiments, divisions. That march was still in progress last June, when Buckner at last got the word to go to Washington, then to Hawaii to organize a full-fledged army...
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...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...
They first encountered reality at Makin. They did not distinguish themselves. After Kwajalein they were packed back to Pearl Harbor to rejoin their own group for more training. In March the Rippers were sent off again, this time with their bomber and torpedo squadron colleagues of Air Group Two, aboard an Essex-class carrier...
...Role. The CVEs helped in the battle of the Atlantic. They fought in the Pacific in calmer seas. Though they were built to be expendable, only two were lost, both to enemy action; the Kaiser-built Liscome Bay, at Makin, late in 1943; the C-3 converted Block Island, in the Atlantic...