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Only five days after his task force had struck savagely at Truk Rear Admiral Marc Mitscher was hitting the Japs again: this time the Marianas Islands, 650 miles northwest of Truk, 1,400 miles south of Tokyo, were the targets...
...beyond denying Truk the defense to which it was entitled, the Japs didn't seem to want to fight at Saipan, Tinian, Guam-bastions far to the northwest of Truk. Rear Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's carrier forces hit these bases and Truk within the space of five days (see col. 3), probably without returning to base to refuel or rearm...
...fleet (commanded by Admiral Spruance) boldly stood off Truk while planes from Rear Admiral Marc Mitscher's carriers worked away. By the end of the first day enemy air opposition had been beaten out of existence...
...supervise the Eniwetok amphibious operation Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner sent one of his most trusted deputies, handsome, grey Rear Admiral Harry Wilbur Hill, who also had charge of the Tarawa phase of the Gilberts operation...
...buildings were crammed with motor parts, tires, thousands of tons of food. The wood from opened crates, carefully salvaged for fuel and for building barracks furniture, covered a ten-acre field. Everywhere swarmed the unsung workers of the Army's rear-area establishment: quartermasters, engineers, ordnancemen, specialists of a hundred sorts...