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Bombers and torpedo bombers from a U.S. carrier force unloaded 90 tons of explosives on Nauru, 500 miles west of the Gilberts. And on Saturday, when the landing forces struck, Army Liberators again attacked objectives in the Marshalls. Purpose: to ground or knock out the Jap air force before the invasion fleet arrived...
...been ordered to lead his fighters to cover dive-bombers and torpedo planes making a strike on a small Jap task force. When he got into the air, he found his instruments were quirky, but he decided to go on. The task force was spotted, then Jap planes appeared...
...most of the week it was ideal torpedo weather. The high tropic moon flaunted itself above masses of gauzy clouds. During these nights death passed the ships so close that we could hear 'the beating of his wings.' Some nights we had the advantage of black storms but even in dense rain and squall, weirdly lit by lightning, the Japanese snoopers sought us. One torpedo plane found us and tried to hit our flanks...
...crew looked over the side. Just below the gunner was a hole 9 ft. by 3. At the moment of the first attack a torpedo had passed clean through the Who, Me?'s bow. Below decks one of the crew found a torpedo's two-foot fin and rudder of fine stainless steel -it had sheered off the toilet seat from the crew's "head" and lodged in the crew's quarters...
Soon after, a Douglas-designed torpedo plane turned out so well that the Navy gave him a $120,000 order. With cash borrowed from Los Angeles businessmen, he set up shop in an abandoned studio, and later bagged an Army order. It was for only four planes, but they shot him to the top of the aviation world. For those planes were the famed DWCs, which were the first to fly round the world...