Word: tinian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spirits were high. "We've been ready to do this job for some time," said Karch, an Annapolis-trained veteran who had fought on Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. "There's a sense of relief at the prospect of getting some action...
...Flown to Tinian on Aug. 5, 1945, to ride over Hiroshima with the crew of the Enola Gay, Laurence was bumped off the plane by Curtis LeMay, had to console himself by talking the copilot into keeping a log. Laurence's 3,000-word story had clearance, but a military censor on Tinian made him boil it down to 500 words-and for some reason the dispatch was then shortstopped on Guam. It never got out at all. The first newspaper accounts of the Hiroshima bomb consisted of stories prewritten by Laurence and others weeks before...
...They Bounce. A Vermonter, Greene is an Annapolis graduate, won his first Legion of Merit for planning the Marshall Islands invasion, his second for combat on Saipan and Tinian. In 1956 he headed the investigation into the Parris Island recruit drownings, later revised the Corps' training program. Since early 1958 Greene has been in Washington, the last three years as Shoup's chief of staff...