Word: scuttlebutt
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Last week Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported "desperate, suicidal" Japanese air attacks on U.S. ships near Okinawa by a "special attack corps." Thus the Pacific fleet boss lifted secrecy from an enemy tactic that had been a tabooed topic (and a source of endless scuttlebutt) since the Leyte campaign...
...visit from Memphis' owlish Democratic Boss Ed Crump. Leaving the White House, Ed Crump was mum. Scuttlebutt had it that he had been summoned in an effort to get him to stop Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, the Senate's premier spoilsman, from trying to wreck...
...27th Infantry Division, only Army outfit on Saipan, had a new commander before the island was finally taken: 49-year-old Major General George W. Griner, longtime infantry officer. The scuttlebutt: "Howlin' Mad" Smith had fallen out with the original division commander during the battle, summarily sacked him, put Soldier Griner in his command...
Naval men had little doubt as to what this new appointment meant in terms of battle. Scuttlebutt had it that Halsey and Spruance would trade off in a highly stepped-up Pacific offensive. While one fleet commander planned and organized an action, the other would be fighting...
...until its air arm gets assigned to carriers, from which it can support its own foot soldiers. Its flyers are browned off on defensive and strategic operations, based on hot atolls. Says General Woods firmly: "The Marine aviator and the Marine foot soldier must be a team." The welcome scuttlebutt this week: the Navy was about ready for some all-Marine carriers, was going to give its amphibious outfit what it wanted...