Word: saipan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spent "picking up the sort of information that seldom gets into the formal reports." Collecting this data has taken him, aside from the hot spots already mentioned, to "headquarters such as Guadalcanal, Port Moresby, Milne Bay, and Brisbane," and he has witnessed the invasions of Morocco and Saipan...
With little rest Pat labored on, convoying ships off Australia, operating in the "Slot," seeing the tide of war turn at last as reinforcements began to arrive from a nation which had tardily remembered its Navy. She fought at Saipan and Tinian. She was a picket ship. She was fire support. She was mobile 5-in. artillery steaming inshore against Jap pillboxes. She operated at Guam and later at Palau and later with Halsey in the second Battle of the Philippines...
When the war ended, rusty old Pat lay in Saipan Harbor, worn out and obsolescent. Soon after, she was ordered home...
...Gauss gave up his deanship to have more time for teaching and literature. His successor: Marine Captain Francis R. B. "Frisco" Godolphin, Princeton '24. Godolphin had left his quiet spot as head of Princeton's Classics Department to spend two years in the Marines, saw action on Saipan, Tinian, and Kwajalein. His job: going well ahead of the fighting lines to direct bombers by radio...
General Joe Stilwell, who should know, volunteered a definition of a G.I.: "A special brand of American who inhabited North Africa, France, Italy, Germany, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Okinawa, Luzon, Burma, China, Iceland, India, Korea, Japan and other places, from 1941 to 1945 . . . swears in good style, likes pretty girls, milk, steak, beer, cheesecake and swing music, and is a sucker for a place called the U.S. . . . hates Japs, Germans, C rations and draft dodgers...