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...most remarkable box score of all is still being totted up. It is the record of one Navy squadron, some of the "fair-haired bastards of Dr. Chung...
...squadron promised Dr. Chung 200 Jap planes by next Christmas, but by June it had bagged only ten. Then, during the battle of Saipan, the squadron shot down 177 Jap planes within two weeks without a loss. Joyfully, squadron leader, Commander William A. Dean Jr., wired Dr. Chung: "TOJO SAY ROY GRUMMAN PUBLIC...
...which Leroy Randle Grumman, the man who makes Hellcats, Avengers, Wildcats and has more cats upcoming, wired back: "GRUMMAN MEN & WOMEN SAY BILL DEAN GRUMMAN COMPANY'S NO. I WORST CUSTOMER. SCORE 187 TO 0 NOT GOOD FOR THEIR BUSINESS." Bill Dean's squadron has now run its box score up to 223 Jap planes, has lost...
Admiral Raymond Spruance used-them to fill out the ranks of his first-line carriers. The CVEs were entrusted with the job of covering the Saipan operation while the big carriers moved on to meet the Jap fleet off the Philippines. Last week a CVE air squadron, Composite Squadron 33, was home after ten months of combat in the Gilberts, the Marshalls, Hollandia, Aitape and the Marianas. Planes and guns of the baby carrier had destroyed 35 Jap aircraft. The little flattops had become an offensive weapon...
Handsome, 50-year-old Don Moon, fourth in his class (1916) at the Naval Academy, served on a battleship in World War I, made his way quietly up the naval ladder between wars. In 1942, as commander of a destroyer squadron, he helped support the landings on North Africa and was officially cited for "exemplary conduct" and "leadership under fire." For Admiral Moon, as far many another officer, the invasion of Normandy was the high point of a career. He played his part with precision and assurance...