Word: tarawa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sherman never saw combat again. For the rest of the war, he was the major planner in the greatest campaign the U.S. Navy ever fought. As Deputy Chief of Staff to Admiral Chester Nimitz, Sherman insisted after Tarawa that the tactically unimportant, heavily defended islands of Maloelap and Wotje should be bypassed, and Kwajalein attacked in one long, 250-mile jump. Said Kelly Turner: "Admiral Spruance and I were astounded." But Sherman was right-so right that the Navy and Kelly Turner's amphibious-force troops hopped on to grab Eniwetok. Thus the Navy's spectacular leapfrogging technique...
...Guadalcanal (referred to with reverence as "The 'Canal"). It is also explained clearly that his wife has deserted him in some dastardly fashion, taking his ten-year-old son, his pride and joy. (That's why he's tough, see). But it isn't until halfway between the Tarawa and Iwo campaigns that he shows his true nobility by feeding Pablum to the infant son of a girl he has picked up in a bar instead of carrying the interview to its logical conclusion...
Shepley called in Robert Sherrod, onetime war correspondent (Tarawa; On to Westward) who now covers the Pentagon Building. Sherrod found out that the J.C.S. had met all day the day before and that there was considerable excitement about the meeting. He also saw General Omar Bradley, head of the J.C.S. leaving the Pentagon in civilian clothes, and learned that Bradley was off to attend a meeting with Defense Secretary Louis Johnson in Acheson's office at the State Department...
When the marines go into action, at Tarawa and Two Jima, they behave more like marines. While taking pains to reconstruct big scenes of the island battles, Republic has leaned heavily on incomparable wartime film to catch the terrible fury of the Pacific fighting. Unfortunately, by intercutting shots of Wayne & company-studio-lighted in uniforms that don't match those of the real invaders-Director Allan Dwan gets a patchwork that suggests a series of trailers intruding on some bang-up newsreel footage...