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...toll of the Allied convoys plying to Murmansk. Much Lend-Lease shipping for Russia had to be rerouted the dismally long way around to the Persian Gulf. The Russians hung on. They dismantled the aircraft factories which lay in the path of the Wehrmacht, moved them far to the rear and reassembled them there...
...rain squalls. The sun tried to pierce the vapors, and a rainbow appeared. At the end of the rain bow, as the seaward-looking Chamorros saw it, were most of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and 'the ships of the Third Amphibious Group under round-faced, round-bellied Rear Admiral Richard L. Conolly. At the end of the rainbow, as the shoreward-looking U.S. seamen and assault troops saw it, was the airstrip on Orote Peninsula...
Chicken and Ice Cream. In a battle like Saipan, where casualties are heavy, hospital ships cannot evacuate more than 20 or 30% of the wounded. The rest, except for the driblet evacuated by air, return to rear areas aboard transports, which are usually crowded and cannot hope to have the exceptional facilities of a hospital ship...
Arrived at the moon, the ship, steered and braked by auxiliary rockets, would settle down rear end first. Its passengers, in diving suits, would emerge to explore the moon's surface. The rocket ship would take off again from a portable launching platform. After regaining the earth's atmosphere, the voyagers and ship would land by parachute...
...Nagumo's subordinate on Saipan, Rear Admiral Yano, went out the same way when the last charge was beaten off. Less successful was elderly Lieut. General Yoshiji Saito. He started to make the charge, faltered, tried to take his own life, failed. His adjutant finished...