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...Navy plans for the immediate future include five 45,000-ton carriers of the Midway class, to be finished in 1948. Within the next twelve months it wants to order 19,140 more combat planes. Said Admiral Ernest King in explanation: "We dare not plan to fire our last bullet on the day of victory...
...shoe stamps (for some 60 delegates and consultants). A Russian ship brought quantities of caviar, vodka and champagne to be dispensed in a Pacific Heights house rented for entertainment. For the delegation's head, Foreign Commissar Molotov, the State Department had been asked to supply 1) a bullet-proof car, 2) an armed escort...
Last week on le Jima, Ernie Pyle, 44, met death from a Jap machine-gunner's bullet...
...such shot, already made famous in newspapers, an unarmed Japanese crouches dazedly out of his hole directly in front of two Marines, starts to run away, and is slammed to earth by a bullet in a death as curt and ghastly as any ever publicly released. In still another, one of two stretcher-bearers falls shot, and the head of the wounded man bangs to the ground. It is not possible to describe the sickening jolt in the heart and stomach which these and other shots give; it is equally impossible to escape the jolt when you see them...
...long sheetlike strip of white cloth. There are Japanese prisoners, by that fact presumably among the softest defenders of their island; and in their bleak, barrelbodied, flintlike power you will recognize if you never did before that the enemy is indeed tough. There is a closeup of a bullet-hole in flesh, at once as intimate and as impersonal as if it were your own wound, so new you cannot yet feel it. There is a shot made through the slot of a tank of a Japanese soldier trying to evade the machine-gun bullets which stitch the ashes...