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Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in his role of CINCPOA (Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas), now has top command in all areas north and east of Luzon. He and MacArthur have got along well thus far. But Navy men in general have no love for MacArthur; many of them believe he has slighted their service. In a special sense, the Pacific War is and has been the Navy's war, and the Navy knows that its prestige in that war is its great claim to public and Congressional support after the peace. The Navy would shrink from...
...theB-29 route between the Marianas and Japan, the surface of the ocean is broken by a pimple called Iwo Jima or Sulphur Island. There the Japanese have maintained three airfields, also a radar station to detect the B-29s and flash word to Tokyo, 750 miles away, giving more than two hours' warning of the bombers' approach. By last week, U.S. planes had bombed little Iwo for 66 consecutive days...
...William Beebe, lean, hardy writer-zoologist, who has spent many a long, chilly hour in a bathysphere a half mile below the ocean surface, and has experienced the hardships of jungle living, prepared for an expedition to the Venezuela tropical forests, admitted he was "tired of roughing it." For his headquarters, Beebe reported that he had found a building originally designed as a hotel, smack in the heart of the jungle, explained: "A scientist can't study nearly as well if he's cold and wet or . . . tired...
...they could not buy, and looking away from things they could not bear, the buyers were quietly desperate. But they may have drawn some comfort from the tailored calm of the attending fashion experts. Declared one woman fashion editor, who refused to be unhorsed by shortages, government, or two-ocean...
...brain center of the war against Japan moved closer to the objective last week. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz issued his 244th communique from "Advanced Headquarters, Pacific Ocean Areas," and correspondents were permitted to say that it was "several thousand miles west of Pearl Harbor." Nimitz had previously mentioned Saipan and Guam as possible sites for his vast command...