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Westward from Hawaii lie the islands which the Japanese had 30 years to prepare for defense: Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Majuro and Palau. Those glittering prizes of yesteryear have their garrisons, their installations and their functions, but they are no longer in the forefront of the new Pacific...
...withdrawn for rest and reorganization. It went back into battle in New Britain. But its bloodiest job was still to come. In the early fall of 1944, under the late Major General William H. Rupertus, its men waded ashore from landing craft on Peleliu in the Palau Islands. On Bloody Nose Ridge in caves which were the "incarnate evil of this war," the Japs made their last stand. In stifling heat at least one regiment of the ist took as high as 60% casualties. The 81st Infantry Division ("Wildcat") moved in to relieve them. In three weeks...
Died. Major General William H. Rupertus, 55, big-jowled commandant of Marine Corps schools at Quantico, Va., able commander in the Solomons and Palau islands campaigns; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...Spot. In Palau, Hospital Apprentice ist Class Albert O. Seagle stood at his post, felt a Jap bullet strike his leg, fell on an operating table, received treatment. Elapsed time: 3 seconds...
...Saipan and Guam invasions, all on-the-spot reporting had to trickle back by courier to Pearl Harbor, which meant it got to the U.S. eight to fourteen days late. Then the Navy yielded to press complaints, sent censors along with its forward units. Finally, at Palau, news was filed directly from an admiral's flagship as soon as radio silence could be broken. Iwo Jima's press arrangements were better still...