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Also found alive was the Marine air ace, Major Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, last seen on Jan. 3, 1944, diving into low clouds over Rabaul with Jap fighters on his tail. At the time, Pappy Boyington was listed as missing, believed dead. But he had flipped his plane, jumped out and landed in the sea, with a broken ankle and riddled with machine-gun slugs. A Jap submarine had picked...
...Melanesia were 300,000 enemy troops, some already heavily engaged by the Australians, some just trying to live. It was a question how clearly the voice of surrender would be heard on the jungled slopes of the Prince Alexander Range in New Guinea, or on the Gazelle Peninsula around Rabaul...
...captured in northern Luzon, told more of the story: In a twin-engined Jap bomber escorted by 30 fighters, Yamamoto and half a dozen other bigwigs were inspecting Jap-held Pacific islands. Over Kahili airdrome on southern Bougainville, the bomber circled to land and the escort headed back toward Rabaul. At that moment...
...Happened. The record is here: Marcus, Wake, Rabaul, the Gilberts, the Marshalls, Truk, the Marianas, Palau, Hollandia, a return engagement at Truk, ("This time," said Commander Cameron Briggs, "we intend our performance to knock them completely off their feet"), the battles in the Philippine Sea. The Navy has let Jensen disclose some of its jealously misguarded secrets: the complete war records of some carriers, and frequent identification of other carriers and their air groups engaged in various battle; the makeup of a typical carrier task group; some of the "hideous errors," as well as the feats of skill and daring...
...Texan named Richard Carmichael has been in the middle of the war. In Australia his squadron joined the famed 19th Group which made its way out of the Philippines and Java. During the lean days of 1942 Carmichael made many a daring bombing mission over Lae, Salamaua, Rabaul, won the DSC, DFC, Silver Star. As a lieutenant colonel he took command of the 19th...