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From days immemorial the tawny Gil-bertese have chanted their folk sagas. Last week New York Timesman Robert Trumbull recorded one that "chanters yet unborn will sing"-the story of the U.S. 165th Infantry and the bathing girls of Makin Atoll...
...colonel came Makin's fat, benevolent King Nakaiea, bearing a complaint. An interpreter translated...
...Colonel know that Makin's young women bathed, naked, in a certain lake? Yes, said the Colonel, he knew. Did the Colonel know that U.S. soldiers gathered around the lake and embarrassed the girls by comment and laughter? The Colonel pondered, then proposed: "I know what is in the King's mind. I shall have a high fence built around the lake and covered with salvaged tentirg so that the young ladies' privacy may be preserved...
...peace he enjoys a good fight. When his troops have landed he goes ashore as soon as possible, carbine over his shoulder. On Makin he came upon a young lieutenant firing madly at nothing visible. "Son," said General Smith, "if you don't quit that wild shooting I'm going to take your gun away from you." From Makin soon after the battle had ended, he flew to Tarawa. He walked through little Betio Island's 5,000 enemy and U.S. dead with the 2nd Marine Division's Major General Julian Smith.* A few minutes after...
When he is not learning more about amphibious warfare on places like Makin, Tarawa or Kwajalein, Holland Smith lives in a house near the naval base at Pearl Harbor with his tall, courtly Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Graves B. ("Bobby") Erskine, his aide, Major Clifton A. Woodrum Jr. (ex-SEC lawyer and son of the Virginia Congressman) and his three Marine orderlies...