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Copy from Admiral Nimitz' press conference at Pearl Harbor clacked monotonously on one of the Associated Press's San Francisco teletypes. Suddenly a side item from Pearl Harbor set another teletype going. Bureau Manager Harold Turnblad whistled in surprise as he read: "Powerful Allied naval forces have attacked a portion of the Japanese fleet lying at anchor near the entrance to Fusan Harbor on the southeast coast of Korea . . . 26 of approximately 80 ships . . . were set afire . . . more than 70 Japanese vessels, including warships and transports, were . . . sunk...
...regularly visits the wounded at hospitals, talking to them in his Virginia drawl with a pipe clenched between his teeth, which produces such Pullerisms as "biz-ouack" for bivouack, "Nitmitz" for Nimitz. Before an attack he spends days with his men encouraging them and carefully inspecting their weapons. They will follow him to hell...
...Chennault's planes will be able to reach the South China Sea, where in the first 19 days of September his B-24s alone had sunk 74,600 tons of Jap shipping. The hope of using Chennault's air forces to support the promised approach of Admiral Nimitz to the China coast has gone glimmering...
...WAVES overseas, Senator Walsh demurred, even after the House passed such a bill twice. By last week not even Dave Walsh could offer any valid reason for keeping all of the 77,000 WAVES, 19,000 Women Marines, and 9,000 SPARS from completely safe spots overseas. Admiral Nimitz wrote that he could send 332 officers and 4,906 enlisted men from Hawaii to sea if he had that many WAVES to replace them; furthermore, barracks were ready for the WAVES's occupancy...
...legislation sets up only four five-star officers. The four: Marshall and King, certainly; Arnold and Leahy, probably. This would leave Eisenhower and Nimitz still under-starred. This moderate inflation would not make everybody happy, but it would help...