Word: tinian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shock of Battle. According to Fletcher Pratt, Peleliu was the Marines' hardest battle. None of them was easy, though he calls the assault on Tinian "perfection." Pratt, one of the best of the civilian war analysts, wrote The Marines' War at the Marine Corps' request, but on three conditions, all granted: that he have full access to official Marine files and captured Japanese records; permission to interview eyewitnesses; complete freedom of opinion. The result is a fine service history written with clarity and intelligence, one that many Marines will welcome as an authoritative corrective to their...
...Wilson, recruiting officer and China hand. In May 1942, he was appointed commanding officer of the ist Marine Regiment. With the 1st, he helped seize Guadalcanal. After Guadalcanal, he moved to Saipan, took over command of the 4th Marine Division. Gates led the 4th in its famed assaults on Tinian and Iwo Jima. Military experts have since described the Tinian assault as "the perfect amphibious operation." To get ready for it, Cates personally did aerial reconnaissance over the island. Once ashore, he visited the front lines almost daily to study terrain and boost morale, often alarming his staff...
...from Amesbury, Massachusetts, received the Kelleher Memorial Scholarship, awarded for the first time in the memory of a Marine Corns capitan who was killed in action on Tinian. The Kelleher fund is included in the National Scholarship program...
...freshman and an even 53 ex-serviceman stars. The line, a coach's dream, bristles with the likes of ex-Gob Zygmont Czarobski, a 213-lb. bonecrusher tackle, and 205-lb. End Jim Martin, a husky ex-Marine who swam ashore on a voluntary reconnaissance mission just before Tinian was invaded. And even if Perfectionist Leahy has not found him yet, Notre Dame surely has at least one express-train halfback up its sleeve somewhere. The real question is when he will be sprung. One good bet is squatty, slippery Emil Sitko...
...Micronesia, each of the three great archipelagoes (Marshalls, Marianas and Carolines) has some atolls or mountain tops which the U.S. wants: Kwajalein and Eniwetok, Saipan and Tinian, Truk and Palau. The U.S. does not need the numberless neighboring islands, with tens of thousands of backward, simple natives, but has announced no policy for their trusteeship or control-because the military and civilian departments within the Government are fighting with each other. Final disposition of the islands must await the signing of a peace treaty-and the Russians are already warming up a propaganda campaign against "U.S. imperialism...