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...latest U.S. amphibious landing at Angaur was made ten months after the first heavily opposed landing in the Pacific, at Tarawa. This dispatch from TIME Correspondent John Walker shows what Americans have learned, in those ten months, about such ugly jobs...
...Navy, the Coast Guard and the Marines in the capture of three islands. This new 21-minute film by Marine combat photographers-which contains less than 2% of the total film shot on the Marianas campaign-lacks the fierce, hammerlike simplicity which helped make With the Marines at Tarawa (TIME, March 20) one of the most powerful and moving short films ever made. But it has the same excellent directness, integrity and restraint; and it has some new qualities all its own. Every American who sees it will find new reason to be proud of his country...
Morotai. One attack hit Morotai, a 695-sq.mi. mountainous, jungled island north of the larger island of Halmahera. On Morotai MacArthur's Sixth Army troops swarmed ashore under cover of heavy air and sea bombardment. Much as at Tarawa, troops had to leave their landing boats at a reef, wade through waist-deep water before they hit the beach...
...veteran of Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian was on his way home last week, on leave. His name: Siwash. His species: duck (the mascot of a Marine Corps artillery outfit). His combat record...
...Tarawa, where he landed with the early waves, Siwash routed, single-winged, a Jap rooster...