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British scientists had brought this storm upon themselves by insisting that something be done and done soon about internationalizing The Bomb. A prominent spokesman for them had been Physicist Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant. Others, following Oliphant's lead, had secretly circulated a round robin declaring that they would rebel against enforced secrecy if the Government ignored them, Official Secrets...
...family's brightest stars were Lieut. Commander Richard and Commander Charles. Charles Crommelin, class of '31, won a D.F.C. over Marcus Island in September 1943, won another by leading the Yorktown's air group during the Gilberts invasion. That was when he brought his plane back despite 200 wounds, then insisted on debarking from the ambulance and visiting the Pearl Harbor Officers' Club "to show those kids it's not so tough to be shot up." Richard Crommelin, '28, had started gathering medals even earlier: a Navy Cross for the Coral Sea, another...
...passed (and supposedly withering on the vine) were 75,000 Japs in the Carolines (two-thirds of them on Truk), 25,000 in the Philippines, 13,000 on four atolls in the Marshalls, 3,500 on Wake, 3,500 on Marcus, 2,500 on Rota in the Marianas, 20,000 in the Bonins...
...early as March 4, 1942, the Bull (it was "Raider" Halsey then) drove with one carrier, the Enterprise, to within a thousand miles of Tokyo, and sent her planes to bomb tiny Marcus Island. Six weeks later he stood on the same carrier's flag bridge and watched Lieut. Colonel (now Lieut. General) Jimmy Doolittle's ill-fated B-25s fly off the Hornet to carry to Tokyo the first token...
...Halsey, a vice admiral and commander of aircraft carriers, Pacific Fleet, was running task, forces of big ships as though they were destroyer divisions: the emphasis was on speed and maneuver. But after his first hell-for-leather raids on the Jap islands - the Gilberts and Marshalls, Wake and Marcus - his force missed the Battle of the Coral Sea by hours. Halsey went back to Pearl Harbor on May 26, 1942, suffering from a skin disease which laid him up for weeks. He missed the Battle of Midway, decisive engagement of the war against Japan...