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...veteran of Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian was on his way home last week, on leave. His name: Siwash. His species: duck (the mascot of a Marine Corps artillery outfit). His combat record...
...after day the Japs were blasted by III Corps artillery, by rocket-firing aircraft from carriers and from captured airfields on Saipan and newly captured Tinian, by surface ships which stood off to east and west...
...Tanks on Tinian. North of Guam, 125 miles, lay another U.S.-Jap battlefield: 48-square-mile Tinian, only three miles from Saipan. On its comparatively level ground, the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions deployed more tanks than had yet been seen on a Pacific island...
They quickly captured the elaborate Ushi air base-a major staging point in the Japs' steppingstone route to the south -and rolled on to take a second strip near Gurguan, also Tinian town. Casualty figures were vastly more favorable to U.S. forces than in any comparable island operation. Only 15 marines were lost in the landings; within a few hours, 1,200 Japs had died...
...Marine Divisions, under their new corps commander, Major General Harry Schmidt, USMC, effected the first shore-to-shore amphibious movement of the Central Pacific offensive. In landing craft, under an umbrella of shells, they swarmed across two-and-a-half-mile Saipan Channel, quickly established two beachheads on Tinian. The island, less mountainous than Saipan or Guam, has no harbor. Its principal value would be to furnish more airstrips. The one built by the Japs had long been neutralized by artillery firing from Saipan, by aircraft based on Isely Field...