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...Yap--island of warlike natives and tropical diseases--will be in the scene of an intensive nine-month anthropological survey next fall by a four-man team from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...former policeman and government official at Yap, Chief Sablan went to a German school on Saipan, speaks English, German, Spanish, Japanese, Chamorro, Carolinian. In his new job, something like an American mayor's, he is responsible to Navy civil affairs officers...
...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...
Ulithi is a series of flat, palm-dotted islands (strung onto a necklace-shaped atoll). It is 110 miles east of Jap-held Yap, 400 miles southwest of Guam-and 4,000 miles nearer the war than Pearl Harbor. Ulithi was captured without opposition last September by the 321st Regiment of the 81st Infantry Division.* The Japs had just left. Ulithi's great, 112-sq.-mi. anchorage could hold nearly 1,000 ships of the U.S. Fleet-something neither Guam nor Pearl Harbor...
...fantastic mixture of a Hollywood witch-doctor picture and the American Deep South. Fierce Yap and Woleai men [who had been imported as slave labor by the Japs] did a wild sword dance. Some wore breechclouts and danced barefoot. Others stomped proudly in G.I. shoes. Mreah, a male dancer, came out blowing a harmonica, and paced a group of women in gingham wrappers. Then out came some children who piped a Japanese love song in a tune that sounded like You Are My Sunshine. Their leader, a buxom girl, started her songs by chanting, 'Wan, two, left, right...