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...Truk, Japan's Pacific naval bastion, and the heavily fortified Palau Islands gave up. So did Japanese garrisons on Pagan and Rota in the Marianas. The catch was estimated...
...passed (and supposedly withering on the vine) were 75,000 Japs in the Carolines (two-thirds of them on Truk), 25,000 in the Philippines, 13,000 on four atolls in the Marshalls, 3,500 on Wake, 3,500 on Marcus, 2,500 on Rota in the Marianas, 20,000 in the Bonins...
...were trained intensively to ride the lead planes, take them in to the targets, give the signal for all planes in the formation to drop their bombs. New crews and re-educated crews trained together in practice runs on LeMay's bombing range: the bypassed island of Rota, 60 miles north of Guam...
...June 11, the Skipper, Bill Dean, led them over Guam and Rota. That day, for the first time, the Rippers flew on top of the war. June 19 Wilbur ("Spider") Webb slid into a flock of Jap dive bombers circling to land on Guam and knocked off six, ending his rampage with only one gun still working. On that day the Rippers got 51 planes in aerial combat, a record which the Rippers shattered themselves five days later by shooting down 67 planes over Iwo Jima...
Next day the carriers' planes returned to the attack, added twelve-mile-long Rota (between Tinian and Guam) to the rota of points bombed...