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Killed in Action. Marine Sergeant Lee Powell, 35, circus and cinema portrayer of the masked vigilante "The Lone Ranger" after two years' Pacific service including Tarawa and Saipan...
Another thing that impresses Dr. Gray is the courage and sense of humor of the average American boy. "Coming out of Tarawa we had to amputate a young marine's leg. He cried a little bit when we told him we had to do it. But next morning when I asked him how he felt, he grinned 'Okay! There's not so much of me to hurt now.' There was another kid who was in extremis when we brought him aboard. He had been shot from only a few feet away...
Probably it meant more administration work than field command for "Howlin' Mad" Smith. But he could take it. With Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok and Saipan behind him, he had commanded more amphibious assaults than any other U.S. general in World...
...wooded area just north of the field lay the results of the work of the artillerymen, and of the tankers and infantry who were now beginning to get back the lost ground. Not even on Tarawa were the Japs piled up so densely. In one area no more than a hundred yards square I counted more than 200 of them...
Commander of the corps that stormed the island was 62-year-old Lieut. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, whose Amphibious Corps had taken Tarawa, Makin, Kwajalein. Commanders of his two Marine Divisions: the Second, blocky, 52-year-old Major General Thomas E. Watson; the Fourth, jut-jawed, 58-year-old Harry Schmidt...