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...about the Atlantic, while assistants covered the fighting at Kwajalein and Eniwetok. Returning to the Pacific to observe the "breaking of the Bismarcks barrier," he sent an assistant to the Mediterranean to report on the landing at Anzio. Still in the spring of '44, Morison took part in the Saipan and Guam landings, as an assistant was on hand for D-Day. Another assistant observed the action in Leyte Gulf...
Five months after Pearl Harbor, Dillon went on active Navy duty as an ensign, participated in the invasions of Guam, Saipan and the Philippines, served as operations officer for the Seventh Fleet air arm, was discharged in 1945 as a lieutenant commander, and returned to Dillon, Read as chairman of the board. An active Republican, Dillon was elected to the New Jersey Republican State Committee. In 1951 he helped organize the New Jersey Republicans for Eisenhower in the bitter preconvention campaign. After election President Eisenhower named Dillon U.S. Ambassador to France. Dillon was widely traveled in France, spoke French fluently...
Social Revolution. Son of a Marine major who won two Medals of Honor, the Daily Times's new managing editor was born in Virginia, educated at Fordham, and joined the New York Times in 1936. During World War II, he made nine Pacific landings (e.g., Tarawa, Saipan, Okinawa) as a Marine combat correspondent...
Died. Andrew Geer, 52, brawny military novelist and historian (The New Breed), who joined the British army in World War II, served with Montgomery's Desert Rats in North Africa, later, as a U.S. Marine captain, saw action at Saipan and Iwo Jima, as a major commanded a battalion of the 1st Marine Division in Korea, authored the bestselling (2,000,000 copies) war novel The Sea Chase; of cancer; in San Rafael, Calif...
World War II. Invited to join militaristic Premier Tojo's wartime Cabinet, Kishi served for three years as Commerce and Industry Minister, resigned in 1944 after a showdown with Tojo over military strategy (Minister Kishi wanted to sue for peace if the U.S. landed at Saipan). Arrested by the U.S. in 1945 as a suspected war criminal and put into Tokyo's grim Sugano Prison, Kishi mopped floors, cleaned latrines, had "plenty of time for soul-searching" until his release in 1948 (he was never brought to trial). Kishi regards his prison term as the turning point...