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When our task force blasted Marcus Island only 1,250 miles from Tokyo three weeks before, Charles Edmundson was on the job for you there...
Less than three weeks after the raid on Marcus Island, the U.S. Navy took another jab at Japan's eastern defenses. This one was a swipe at the flanks-the southerly Gilbert Islands...
With its usual reticence, the Navy released no details. Targets were Tarawa, important Jap air base, and tiny Nauru. Said the Navy: "Operations were carried out according to plan during the night preceding and a good portion of the day." (The Marcus raid lasted only nine hours.) Said Tokyo: 200 planes made the attack, 20 were shot down...
...Navy's report on its stab into enemy waters 1,250 miles from Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 13) sounded like an anticlimax. According to the communiqué finally issued last week by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: 80% of little Marcus Island's military installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded...
...forces made another jab at Japan's inner defenses this week. The Japs had scarcely sucked in their breaths after the carrier raid on Marcus Island when U.S. bombers hit again, this time in the north, in the Kurile Islands...