Word: pearled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whipped to desperation, the Japs sprang into action. Pearl Harbor announced that a great sea-air battle was raging off Formosa. If the Jap surface forces should come out, this might develop into the decisive naval battle...
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...
They first encountered reality at Makin. They did not distinguish themselves. After Kwajalein they were packed back to Pearl Harbor to rejoin their own group for more training. In March the Rippers were sent off again, this time with their bomber and torpedo squadron colleagues of Air Group Two, aboard an Essex-class carrier...
...carriers are baby flattops (CVEs) and not big, slick beauties of the Essex class, the Navy's announcement quieted the Marine air arm's long clamor for a share in carrier-based flying. Before the war a few Marine outfits had been carrier-based, but by Pearl Harbor they were all flying from land airdromes; and that was where the Navy left them...
...vast and horrifyingly incidental cost of war was underlined last week in a report by the Army Air Forces. Since Pearl Harbor 11,000 Army airmen have been killed in the U.S., most of them before they ever saw a battlefront...