Word: tinian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deeply religious son of a Presbyterian minister, Dr. McNeilly saw his chance when the Navy announced that the post of officer-in-charge would soon be open at one of the world's newest and most remote leper colonies, on the flat, tiny Pacific island of Tinian, once a B-29 base. Dr. McNeilly asked...
...Marine Hospital at Carville, La., boning up on the most modern sulfone treatment for what victims prefer to call Hansen's disease (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946). Next he will spend a month at Hawaii's leprosarium on Molokai Island. On May 1 he will go to Tinian with his wife, who is a registered nurse, and their two small daughters...
...Tinian, 32 square miles in the Marianas, polyglot leper patients may come from any of the thousands of islands scattered over the watery 3,000,000 sq. mi. of the Trust Territory (former Japanese mandate). Dr. McNeilly will have a warrant officer, four corpsmen, three native nurses and two native aids to help...
...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...