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...Tinian he and Pfc. Al Shirley, of Los Angeles, made an unauthorized patrol ahead of advancing tanks to defuse land mines. They captured a machine gun, turned it on the enemy and killed 19. Pfc. Shirley used a whole clip from a Browning automatic rifle to knock down a Jap before the machine gun was taken. For such waste, Sergeant Smith gave him a good dressing-down...
With little rest Pat labored on, convoying ships off Australia, operating in the "Slot," seeing the tide of war turn at last as reinforcements began to arrive from a nation which had tardily remembered its Navy. She fought at Saipan and Tinian. She was a picket ship. She was fire support. She was mobile 5-in. artillery steaming inshore against Jap pillboxes. She operated at Guam and later at Palau and later with Halsey in the second Battle of the Philippines...
...gave up his deanship to have more time for teaching and literature. His successor: Marine Captain Francis R. B. "Frisco" Godolphin, Princeton '24. Godolphin had left his quiet spot as head of Princeton's Classics Department to spend two years in the Marines, saw action on Saipan, Tinian, and Kwajalein. His job: going well ahead of the fighting lines to direct bombers by radio...
...Just before midnight on Friday, Aug. 10, 350 pilots and crewmen of Brigadier General Roger Ramey's 58th Bombardment Wing gathered in the briefing room on Tinian. A group newly named Kagu-tsuchi (for a Japanese fire god) was scheduled to make a strike; for many of the B-29 crews, it would be their 35th mission-all they needed to complete a tour and get a U.S. leave...
June-August: Saipan, Tinian and Guam were captured. The Fifth Fleet fought the First Battle of the Philippine Sea off Saipan, shot down 404 planes, sank three carriers...