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...birds had arrived in the morning. On nearby Kwajalein, Jaluit, Maloelap, little bandy-legged men squinted at the Pacific sky and ran for cover. Even over the island of Eniwetok, furthest west of all the Marshalls, the carrier-based planes arrived (see map, p. 19). The atolls shuddered under the impact of bomb upon bursting bomb and presently the screech and clump of shells added to the din and terror. Out of sight, over the horizon, surface ships had joined the carriers and were bringing the little men's islands under naval gunfire. Long awaited, long expected...
With the men at the Nettuno beachhead (see map) was TIME Correspondent Will Lang. Of the local, intermittent fighting in the first days, he cabled...
...enemy was fooled. When the invasion forces swept ashore some 30 miles below Rome, they met no opposition. Three crack German divisions which might have produced another Salerno had been ingeniously lured south, to save the sagging Gustav Line (see map...
Some 2,500 miles to the southwest, Navy planes lifted into the sky, soared west to strike tentatively at Jap-held Kusaie in the Carolines, staging point for supplies bound for the Jap-held Marshalls (see map...
Jimmy Savo had articles in both Vogue and Hobo News. Wrote the Italian castle-owning comedian in Vogue: "It is when I look at the map of Italy that I am sad, thinking of the poor mythical people living there in the little town within the walls of my castle." For the Hobo News the classically baggy and disheveled Savo explained: "My suit['s] . . . biggest advantage is that I can turn it into a night kimono after...