As is almost always the case with the Army, and often with the Marines, it was very difficult to get enough men to unload boats, even slowly, he told Spruance on November 30. As soon as the troops deb...
On the qualities required of naval officers, Roosevelt was outspoken: They must have skill in handling the ships, skill in tactics, skill in strategy . . . the dogged ability to bear punishment, the p...
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Forces in Batjan on June 11.61
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Throughout the Pacific, one could find an illicit trade in torpedo juice, the high-proof fuel used in torpedoes. Beer was usually rationed at two cans a week. When a larger quantity of beer was obtain...
The french Captain tells me, I have caused a War with France, Truxtun wrote Stoddert. If so I am glad of it, for I detest Things being done by Halves. The
The Japanese people were rapidly succumbing to what would later be called shoribyo, or victory disease—a faith that Japan was invincible, and could afford to treat its enemies with contempt. Its sympt...
That day buried levees, birthdays, royal parades, and the arrogation of precedence in society by certain self-styled friends of order, but truly styled friends of privileged orders…. In social circles...
Stoddert named Joshua Humphreys Chief Naval Constructor of the United States, and authorized him to oversee naval shipbuilding operations throughout the country. But Humphreys’s efforts to impose his...
Shattered Sword
Reaching California, many of the Pacific-bound servicemen were caught in limbo, waiting for a ship and that suited them fine. No one doubted that the route to Tokyo would be long and bloody, and they...
A jolt, a white flash, a thunderclap, and the Hayate was torn apart—her bow floated one way, her stern the other, each section bobbing pitifully on the sea, and then both quickly sank, taking 168 men...
Marine Captain Bankson T. Holcomb, Jr., a Japanese-language officer detached from Pearl Harbor’s codebreaking unit, picked up a transmission by a Japanese patrol pilot (probably the same one that had...
Lieutenant (jg) Ralph Hanks, an Iowa pig farmer before the war, became an ace in a day by shooting down five Zeros in a single skirmish. In a fifteen-minute air engagement, his throttle never left the...
It was decided to leave her where she lay. She lies there
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Families were bound by the oyaku-shinju (parent-child death pact). The were obligated to take their own lives and those of their kin by any means at hand. Cyanide capsules were given out until there w...
Than it had ever been before:
Britain would work its influence gently, so as not to chafe the fragile American ego—Churchill informed his war cabinet that the Americans were not above learning from us, provided that we did not set...
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