Word: saipan
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...after day the Japs were blasted by III Corps artillery, by rocket-firing aircraft from carriers and from captured airfields on Saipan and newly captured Tinian, by surface ships which stood off to east and west...
Civilian prisoners taken on Saipan believed that the Japanese had captured the Hawaiian Islands, that their Navy had gone through the Panama Canal without losing a ship, had taken Washington. Another yarn, which U.S. reporters read in the English-language newspaper Mainichi: the late Navy Secretary Frank Knox was losing his fleet at the rate of one or two ships a day instead of risking it all in one battle. Reason (according to Mainichi): Publisher Knox would get more stories for his newspaper that...
...accuse the American press of having, in handling the story of the battle of Saipan, committed one of the most disgraceful flubs in the history of American journalism...
...always been and is now the case that headquarters correspondents in Pearl Harbor scoop reporters on the scene of action by periods ranging from hours to days. In the beginning of the battle of Saipan it was days, because those at headquarters had means to move any copy they chose to write while we at the scene had none...
...Thus within less than a week, and before the first on-the-scene copy reached the States, the PH experts had begun and ended the battle of Saipan. In Pearl Harbor they wrote with beautiful enthusiasm of American troops swamping the Japs, sweeping up Saipan's beach, blasting blithely through its defenses, sprinting to the island's biggest airport, largest town, highest mountain. They wrote with such smug confidence of victory that no reader and no editor could doubt that American troops here were engaged in a picnic of no consequence. So long as press communications remain...