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Killed in Action. Colonel James Gardiner Conroy, 54, commander of the 16sth Infantry Regiment (New York's old "Fighting 69th"), peacetime National Guard officer. Brooklyn lawyer; during the assault against the Gilbert Islands; on Makin atoll...
Pacific. The Navy threw its biggest offensive force of the war into attacks on Makin, Tarawa and Abemama atolls in the Central Pacific...
...Tarawa, Makin and Abemama, tiny pin points of coral and sand, Admiral Spruance's Marines and soldiers fought Japs for whom there was no line of retreat. But ahead of the Americans there was a pregnant line of advance-to the Marshalls, to the Japs' great naval-and-air center at Truk...
...Islands. Makin is a group of four main islets and several smaller ones, surrounding an eleven-mile-wide lagoon. Marine raiders landed in August 1942, killed every Jap (348) in sight, left after two days. Last week the invaders were there hoping to stay; the Navy said that resistance was only moderate...
There is Commander Bill Brockman who carried part of Carlson's and Jimmy Roosevelt's raiders on the Makin Island raid in the summer of 1942. There are men whose exploits are legendary in the service: "Mush" Morton, big, amiable skipper of the Wahoo, one of four submarines to win a Presidential citation; Commander Frederick Burdett ("Peanuts") Warder, a mild-appearing, silent man whose only regret for his historic rampage in the Java Sea as captain of the Seawolf is that it inspired some writer tc curse him with the nickname of "Fearless Freddie"; Commander Mike Fenno...