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Guam, Too. Douglas and Curtiss dive-bombers roared out of the predawn to smack the twin, 15-mile-long islands of Saipan and Tinian, while Grumman Hellcats provided cover and strafing. Later in the day a second strike was launched on schedule. A smaller delegation of Navy pilots bombed U.S.-owned Guam, 85 miles farther south, for the first time since the Japs seized it in December...
...howitzers pumped shells up the hill. The mountain seemed to jump and quiver, like a great bear twitching in sleep. Observers counted 200 men, some allegedly in uniform, scurrying out of the devastated monastery. As the next-to-last wave of 20 Marauders dropped a cluster smack on the abbey, an American soldier yelled: "Touchdown...
...Untamed. Ingoldsby, now a lieutenant commander, began his work as a lieutenant, ran smack into the stone wall of deep-sea tradition. Seafaring commanders balked at giving up their time-honored shore authority over their own crews. Enlisted sailors, used to the comradely patrols from their own ships, balked too. It took an order from Navy Secretary Frank Knox to give Ingoldsby and his crew real authority. Then Ingoldsby went to work, got his unit going in a matter of days...
...three. Fell smack on the sidewalk...
...dressed women (by the Fashion Academy), 100 outstanding women (by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt), Miss Kellems explained that she needs the Government's money to build her reserve because her own money is tied up in a reserve of materials. To Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, her stand "smack[ed] of disloyalty...