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Task Force to Truk. The new team was tuned up in training raids against Marcus and Wake Islands. It showed its power in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands. But not until Kwajalein was secured did the seaborne air power of the U.S. Navy show its immense reach. Then Admirals Spruance and Mitscher set off with the fast carriers and fast battleships to neutralize Truk. Task Force 58 was on its road to glory...
...follow-the first of those many gunbarrel shots of combat in color which, in their effortless achievement at once of superhuman force and grandeur and of jewel-like delicacy, might well make this film the envy of good poets and painters for the rest of time. Later on, over Truk and Kwajalein and the Marianas, these shots-plus some hair-raising ones of crash-landings on the carrier deck-heap one astonishment so thickly upon another that the eye and mind can hardly keep pace. For violent air action and for pure visual magnificence, The Fighting Lady is not likely...
...wags liked to put it) were really allies. "Bull" Halsey met MacArthur; they found there was no reason for friction - at least, not any more. Chester Nimitz flew down to New Guinea; he and MacArthur conferred. While the Navy struck across the Pacific, through the Gilberts and Marshalls, past Truk and into the Marianas and western Carolines, MacArthur's men got stout naval support...
...Their carrier task force moved south to the New Guinea theater and struck Hollandia, moved north east for strikes at Truk, Satawan and Ponape. Still the Rippers were no better than any mine-run fighter squadron. In early June the task force went north to lend a hand in the invasion of the Marianas. There the squadron found itself...
...Japan. Wherever possible, U.S. strategy has been to by-pass Jap defenses. From air bases on Angaur, Peleliu and Ngesebus, the U.S. can now neutralize not only the 25,000 Japs on Babelthuap, Koror and the other northern Palaus, but also an estimated 100,000 others on once-mighty Truk, Ponape and other Caroline islands...