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...enemy waters, began to count on an increasing chance of rescue. Pilots who were unable to return to their bases always knew where a crash landing or a parachute jump could be made with some hope. Float planes were used where submarines could not go-as in the Truk lagoon early last year, when seven pilots were taxied out by one plane. In Ormoc Bay last year five PBY Dumbos saved 142 men from a torpedoed destroyer, 56 of them in one plane. It took a three-mile run before getting...
...Santa Fe was at Wake Island, Bougainville, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Truk, Palau, Yap, Hollandia, Wakde, Samar, Ponape, Pagan, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Formosa. She sank a destroyer in the Bonins last August, and got four cargo ships off Mindanao, 2,000 miles to the southwest, in September...
hospital ships to sail within 15 miles of their base at Truk) was suddenly thrown overboard. Out of a clear moonlit night a Kamikaze plane dove into the U.S.S. Comfort, steaming southeast of Okinawa with its lights ablaze, in accordance with international law. The crippled 700-bed mercy ship, with 29 dead, limped toward port...
Lieut. Commander Philip Torrey, skipper of the Essex' Air Group 9, was a brave man. But when the target was announced, he later recalled, "My first instinct was to jump overboard." On the first day at Truk, 127 land-based Jap planes were shot down, 77 more were bagged on the ground. On the second day, not one got off the ground. Two of the hardiest myths of the war in the Pacific had been exploded: 1) Truk was not impregnable; 2) in a contest with seaborne planes, land-based air power was no better than its planes...
...Happened. The record is here: Marcus, Wake, Rabaul, the Gilberts, the Marshalls, Truk, the Marianas, Palau, Hollandia, a return engagement at Truk, ("This time," said Commander Cameron Briggs, "we intend our performance to knock them completely off their feet"), the battles in the Philippine Sea. The Navy has let Jensen disclose some of its jealously misguarded secrets: the complete war records of some carriers, and frequent identification of other carriers and their air groups engaged in various battle; the makeup of a typical carrier task group; some of the "hideous errors," as well as the feats of skill and daring...