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...Navy, which allowed the cast and cameramen aboard for its 1955 operation in the Caribbean when some 200 ships and 10,000 Marines joined in the largest-scale amphibious maneuvers in history. With the aid of clips from combat film, the details of training, the assaults on Jap-held islands, the rescue missions and the chilling kamikaze attacks off Okinawa are brought vividly to life. Not so effective are the inevitable flashbacks to civilian life and love, featuring Julie Adams...
Died. Brigadier General Clinton Dermott ("Casey") Vincent, 40, operations officer of the Continental Air Defense Command, World War II ace (16 Jap planes), and winner of the Silver Star and D.F.C. for his exploits as General Claire Chennault's operations officer and deputy chief of staff in the China-Burma-India theater; in Colorado Springs. West Pointer Vincent was the prototype of "Vince Casey" in Milton Caniff's comic strip Terry and the Pirates, became (at 29) one of the youngest general officers in Army history...
World War II: As commander of Destroyer Squadron 23, the "Little Beavers," he fought 22 actions in the Pacific between Nov. 1, 1943 and Feb. 23, 1944. His command was credited with destroying one Jap cruiser, nine destroyers, one submarine, one auxiliary vessel, one cargo vessel, one minelayer, four barges and 30 enemy planes. Each time he got an order for movement, he gave the same reply: "Proceeding at 31 knots." Later, he became chief of staff to Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, planned and executed carrier attacks on Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Tokyo. Twice the flagship was hit, and twice...
...best qualitative yardstick so far available was the Korean War. Initially we were rudely surprised by the Soviet MIG-15, which, at altitudes above 28,000 to 30,000 feet, had flying characteristics superior to our aircraft. But, like the Jap Zero of World War II, it was not a better fighting machine. The "kill" statistics, even if liberally discounted, were overwhelming in our favor. Greater pilot skill accounted for much of this but not all of it. We have other yardsticks. We,know, as General Alfred M. Gruenther, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, has stated, that...
...Behemoth Creature. Earthquake was Captain James B. McGovern, 32, of Elizabeth, NJ. He flew P-40s and Mustangs over China with Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, knocked down four Jap planes. When Chennault formed his Civilian Air Transport (CAT) to help the Nationalists against the Red Chinese in China, Earthquake signed up. Once the transport he was flying was attacked by Chinese Communist fighters over the Shantung peninsula, but "they missed," Earthquake explained laconically. Later, flying gasoline to the hard-pressed Nationalists in Kunming, he made a forced landing on a river sandbar in Communist territory...