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Kwajalein had proved the effectiveness of greatly increased naval and air bombardment. It had also proved that no atoll can be captured until the foot soldiers wade ashore and kill the remaining Japs. The boss of Central Pacific foot soldiers is amphibious warfare's kindly, choleric "Howlin' Mad" Smith, who looks and sometimes talks like Wallace Beery in the role of a Marine general. He is the father of modern U.S. amphibious warfare...
...greatest concentration of power, the largest fleet in the world. Working with Spruance is a mixed collection of Navy, Marine, Army and Air Force officers including the Navy's amphibious expert, high-domed Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner; the Marines' amphibious expert, Major General Holland ("Howlin' Mad") Smith...
Last week Marine Major General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, who commanded amphibious operations in the assault on the Gilbert Islands, spoke to home folks who had quailed at the losses on Tarawa (TIME...
...direct hits with heavy shells or bombs. Often a 2,000-lb. bomb, striking within a few feet of a pillbox and digging a 15-ft. hole, merely threw more sand on top of the Jap fortifications. Surveying Betio's defenses after the battle, Marine Major General Holland ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, chunky, bespectacled commander of amphibious operations, said: "It looks beyond the realm of human possibility that this place could have been taken...
Only time in history before World War II that U.S. air, army and naval forces served under a unified command was on the North Carolina shore maneuvers last July, when Major General Holland McTyeire ("Howlin' Mad") Smith of the Marines commanded task forces of the Marines and the Army under the over-all supervision of Admiral Ernest Joseph King...