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...recently had on board the large aircraft carrier which I command your correspondent, Mr. Robert Sherrod. Although he had not been with us very long he made himself one of the most popular persons on the ship, both with officers...
...allowed him to participate in a dive-bombing attack against Wake. The pilot took him down through the antiaircraft fire in an almost vertical dive of many thousands of feet with a release and final pullout at under 1,000 ft., which didn't seem to faze Bob Sherrod in the least...
Somewhere in the Pacific, the U.S. task force that had mauled Wake Island on Oct. 5 and 6 steamed back to its base. From a carrier's bridge TIME and LIFE Correspondent Robert Sherrod surveyed the scene: "I can see a sight that would gladden the hearts of all Americans. To the starboard there is another carrier. For miles beyond are cruisers and destroyers. On the port side are several carriers, and their protecting cruisers stretch all the way to the horizon. We cannot see them, but there are still other warships over the horizon. It is the greatest...
...Robert Sherrod spent three months in the dreariest hole in northern Australia last year waiting for the Jap invasion to come (one story we're mighty glad he never did have to cover)-and this spring after his part in the fighting at Attu he shivered for ten more weeks in the Aleutians waiting to go into Kiska with the invasion that found the Japs were gone. (Last week Sherrod took off on still another battlefront assignment...
From TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod came this firsthand report...