Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During our recent attacks against the enemy on Wake, he insisted that he could do a better job as a correspondent if he participated in the attack. ... We allowed him to participate in a dive-bombing attack against Wake. The pilot took him down through the antiaircraft fire in an almost vertical dive of many thousands of feet with a release and final pullout at under 1,000 ft., which didn't seem to faze Bob Sherrod in the least...
...also remember that a strong carrier force raided Wake and at any time might support an invasion blow at Truk's eastern flank-at the Marshalls and Gilberts, for instance. He must have realized that last week's Solomons action might be partly a diversion. He probably had means of hearing excerpts from a speech Admiral Nimitz made in Honolulu last week: "Before we can bring our fast-growing air and naval superiority to bear on the Japanese homeland, we must secure adequate bases close enough to that homeland. This will be done...
...hands and the high command knew that only direct hits by aerial bombs could wipe out the burrowed Japs. A naval officer estimated that 85% to 90% of the enemy garrison were still alive. Unless the Jap evacuated, marines or infantry would still have to fight for Wake...
...Wake Island raid Oct. 5 and 6, carrier-borne Hellcats shot 30 Japanese Zeros out of the air, nailed another 31 to the ground with merciless low-level strafing. Not a Hellcat was lost. At another Pacific island, not identified by the Navy, 21 Jap fighters were destroyed, two Hell cats lost. Combined score...
Escort Missions. Hellcats went looking for trouble in the Marcus Island raid Sept. 1, but ran into no opposition. They found it at Wake and in bomber-escort missions in the Solomons area...