Word: saipan
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This was not the fault of the war, although this was the blackest of weeks for the enemy on both sides of the world. The steady flow of huge headlines-Cherbourg, Saipan, Vitebsk-could neither blot the Republican convention off the front pages nor out of Americans' minds...
When the U.S. made its latest leap 1,200 miles west from Kwajalein, into Saipan, key to the Marianas, Shimada had to put up or shut up. Caught in an impossible dilemma, he made the worst decision possible: a compromise...
...baleful days the Jap Navy: ¶ Lost 30 ships sunk, plus two probably sunk. Fifty-one more were damaged. ¶ Lost 13 landing barges, complete with packed crews, most of them on the way to reinforce the garrison at Saipan. ¶ Lost 757 aircraft destroyed by U.S. aircraft...
...Saipan, at least two divisions of U.S. marines, plus Army infantry, tore into the bloodiest Pacific fighting since Tarawa. The Navy's guns had admirably covered their landings, but the island was too mountainous for either naval guns or air bombing to decide the inland fighting...
Japan could not afford to let Saipan go. The shots of the U.S., getting closer & closer, were on the target now. When the Navy got Saipan, the next shots could be on the bull's eye-Japan's homeland. Opened by old Matt Perry with blandishments almost a century ago, Japan was on the way to being opened again-with steel. One of the mathematical minds behind that quickening progression was Admiral Spruance...