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...Marines were still killing Japs in the Solomons (see col. 1) when a smaller Marine detachment raided tiny Makin Island, 1,250 miles northeast of Tulagi. Under tall, battle-hardened Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson and his second-in-command, Major James Roosevelt, they killed at least 80 Japs, destroyed two seaplanes and a radio station, looked on while Jap bombers from a nearby island pounded what was left of their own men and installations. Then the Marines retired...
...mandated Marshalls, 1,200 miles eastward toward Hawaii, protect Truk on one side. The rest of the Carolines surround the Truk group itself: many & many a tiny island like Makin may offer no real protection, but does insure the Japs of ample warning of assault upon Truk...
When the U.S. is able to occupy some of the outlying islands, Truk undoubtedly will be subjected to air assault. Naval and land assault is another matter. The Navy may prefer to move against the upper Solomons, New Britain and New Guinea to the southwest, against Makin and other Gilbert Islands in the southeast, and thus finally to immobilize Truk and bottle the Japs within their bits of heaven...
...little ken what curséd speed The beastie's makin...
...myself should very much enjoy makin' my house a home, but my brain keeps on a-goin' clickety-click...