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...battered southern fleet had escaped through Luzon Strait (between Luzon and Formosa). It had a choice of bases (see map) for repairs and refits. The Battle of the Eastern Philippines was ended...
...their left, the attackers moved on Garapan (see map), the largest town (pop. 10,000) on Saipan, and the capital of the whole Marianas chain. On their right they skirted the shores of Magicienne Bay past Laulau. In the center, struggling yard by bitter yard up the slopes, blasting and burning the Japs out of caves and crannies, they seized Mt. Tapotchau...
Father and son were both on missions at sea when the Japs struck on Dec. 7, 1941. They met in Pearl Harbor the following day. Edward said with brash confidence: "We'll blast the Jap Navy out of the Pacific in a week." Spruance unrolled a map, gave his son a lecture from which Edward retired a sobered young man. Edward, a lieutenant commander and a good officer, last week was awaiting his own submarine command...
...Already on hand were 100 applications from private systems-some of them still unformed-which want to get a piece of this postwar business. After consulting many Government agencies, and with the approval of Franklin Roosevelt, CAB had worked out 20 tentative routes. On a great map, CABoss Pogue traced some of the globe-girdling lines over which U.S. airlines plan...
This brought stunned representatives of almost every foreign government in Washington streaming in to look at the big "orange-peel" map of U.S. plans. The British stared when they saw blue lines running through British territories. The Dutch came to worry about their KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) interests. The enigmatic Russians came and went, enigmatically...