Word: saipan
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...made only brief trips away from Japan-though he was once a copra planter on Saipan and has made 14 trips to the South Seas-but his works have traveled far. Among U.S. collectors: Greta Garbo, Joan Fontaine, Mrs. Joseph Clark Grew, Edward G. Robinson...
...these bases were far from finished when Japan surrendered. Except in Hawaii, there had been little permanent construction, in iron and concrete, during the war. Kwajalein and Saipan, Iwo and Okinawa had been filled first with tents, then with temporary buildings such as Quonset huts. The life expectancy of these structures, under tropic rains and salt spray, is scarcely more than two years. If the bases were to be any good a few years hence, the corrugated iron must be replaced with reinforced concrete. At Wake, Marcus and Truk, where U.S. forces did not land until after the surrender...
...program calls for questions from the radio audience. It not only gets them (450 a day); it also finds how little the Japs were told in wartime. Sample questions: What is the truth about the battle of the Coral Sea? Will you tell us how American forces landed on Saipan and explain the progress of fighting there? What happened to all the fighting ships of the Japanese Navy...
...bases, stretching from Hawaii to the China Seas, from the barren Aleutians to paradisiac Samoa. Pearl Harbor would continue to dominate the military map. But the U.S. armored highway across the Pacific, which once faded out a thousand miles beyond Pearl, would henceforth extend to Guam and Saipan...
...most readers the single actions which measured off the tremendous campaign are household words-Kula Gulf, Saipan, Leyte, Okinawa-but they remain isolated incidents on the war's vastest and most unfamiliar battlefield. TIME Editor Cant has fitted these battles into the context of comprehensive, coherent history. The battle narratives are packed with detailed descriptions of the forces involved, the missions assigned to each, the complex of pressures which determined the outcome. At the same time, Cant points out the needs which governed the course and timing of U.S. operations...