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Readers will find Tarawa the work of a crack reporter, the most vivid book on the Pacific war since Ira Wolfert's Torpedo 8. Many will find it stomach-turning in its horrifying depiction of battle. That was Author Sherrod's prime objective: "Our information services [have] failed to impress the people with the hard facts of war. . . . There is no easy way to win. . . . [There will] be many other bigger and bloodier Tarawas...
...City's leftist PM; Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ($2), Captain Ted Lawson's report (written by Journalist Bob Considine) on the Doolittle raid; Eve Curie's North African Journey Among Warriors ($3.50); Commando Lieut. Colonel Robert Henrique's The Voice of the Trumpet ($2); Ira Wolfert's Torpedo 8 ($2) and Battle for the Solomons ($2); John Hersey's Into the Valley ($2); Jack Belden's Retreat With Stilwell ($3); Ernie Pyle's Here Is Your War ($3); Hilary St. George Saunders' Combined Operations; the Official Story of the Commandos...
Torpedo 8, fruit of NANA Correspondent Ira Wolfert's three-month stay in the South Pacific, is a report of U.S. air fighting in the Solomons. Terse and nerve-tingling, the book communicates the stab-&-run violence of aerial battle with a verbal violence as calculated and vivid as an explosion...
Dispensers of Death. Revenge, and how they got it, is Author Wolfert's story. Not that the men of Torpedo 8 were romantically vengeful: they were "astonishingly practical, very realistic and hardheaded." When asked to volunteer for near-suicide missions, they and their fellow airmen would withdraw to ponder upon the matter. They volunteered "only when, independently of their officers, they decide [d] the possible gain [was] worth the probable loss." They knew that launching torpedoes from the bellies of their fat little craft meant "going in fast and low and drawing their planes across the mouths...
...three months and one week," concludes Author Wolfert, "[Torpedo 8] carried out 39 attack missions. . . . They were credited with two carriers. They also hit a battleship, five heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, one destroyer, and one transport. . . . When there were no Jap ships to torpedo, they glide-bombed Japs on the ground." After one such bombing, the Marines found 407 enemy dead. The Author. Ever since his hasty birth in a bathtub (Manhattan, 1908), talented Author Wolfert has been in a hurry. In the last 19 months he breathlessly...