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...bombs which fell on Pearl Harbor caught the U.S. with only two hospital ships to its name. By this year's end it will have 24. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod described one of them in highly graphic detail in this cable from Saipan...
...troops in the drive across the Pacific. The Japs, who knew its value, gave it up hard. Their losses: 16,000 dead, 1,000 prisoners, countless others missing in the caves where they were buried by explosive and by bulldozers. In this dispatch from the battlefield, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod tells of the Japs' last stand...
Most Negro marines are in service companies, but all marines are combat-minded. Last week, as a footnote to the invasion of Saipan, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod wrote about the first to see action...
Saipan's snipers were the meanest yet. In this cable, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod tells how the marines went about one job of mopping up these fanatical, last-ditch fighters...
...bigger than 100 yards in diameter. Many Jap caves had steel doors which were opened periodically for machine guns to fire. Snipers were everywhere. An Army colonel was shot through the heart by a sniper who had hidden more than a week. A recurrent gag, reported TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, was that the safest place to be was in the front line...