Word: saipan
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...details of their Greenland exploits. ("How did you find conditions on the icecap?" asked one blonde newshen.) In the background Air Force P.R.O.s worked diligently. The glory would not have been theirs to exploit had the Air Force been beaten to the rescue by the Navy's carrier Saipan...
This week, with no rescue yet in sight, the Navy joined the operation, sent the carrier Saipan north from Norfolk with three Piasecki ("Sagging Sausage") helicopters, each capable of carrying eight passengers. The red-faced Air Force ordered up ski-equipped planes and called in famed Arctic flyer Colonel Bernt Balchen, who had commanded the Air Force's first successful glider rescue in Alaska fortnight...
Next unit after Koror will probably be on Saipan, whose capture cost 3,040 U.S. lives. The Navy, which rules Saipan, has set aside as Memorial Reservations two areas, one a lake, the other a mountain peak still covered with virgin forest. When enough money has been raised, the Pacific War Memorial will have stations manned with scientists all over the U.S. Pacific, and a headquarters in Honolulu to organize the information that is gathered...
...suffered from lack of battle training and sloppy leadership, that it was equipped neither by discipline nor inclination for the Marines' hell-for-leather tactics. But Howlin' Mad's running battle with the Army served little present purpose. The whole story of the Army on Saipan seemed destined to take its place with such other military causes célèbres as the conduct of the Dardanelles campaign in World War I and the reason Longstreet was late in attacking Little Round...
...Erwin, of Alabama, picked up a burning phosphorus bomb with his bare hands, tossed it out a copilot's open window. Despite his searing burns, Erwin lived to have the Medal of Honor pinned on his bandages. Sergeant Thomas A. Baker, of New York, severely wounded on Saipan, refused to retreat, was left propped against a tree, with a pistol containing eight rounds. Later, when his body and empty pistol were found, eight Japanese lay dead around...