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...Wake and Midway. On that day four battered old Grummans of Fighter Squadron 211 clattered up into the air over Wake Island and tore into the Jap naval force creeping over the horizon. In that pitiful and heroic last stand the Marine flyers set one enemy ship afire, sank a cruiser. Said a presidential citation: "The courageous conduct . . . will not be forgotten as long as gallantry and heroism are respected and honored...
They fought at Midway, where Major Loften R. Henderson power-dived his flaming bomber onto a Jap carrier and Captain Richard E. Fleming, with his plane in flames, led his squadron against another carrier; Fleming was last seen hurtling into the sea. Eighty-four Marines flew against the Japs during the crisis at Midway; 38 were killed. Said Admiral Chester Nimitz to their commanding officer at Midway: "The sacrifices of your heroic men have not been in vain. . . . They dealt the enemy carriers the first blow and they spearheaded our great victory...
Escorted by guards we had left our village at dusk and gone to the foot of a goat path. After an exchange of passwords, a new guard was assigned to lead us straight up the rocks beside a waterfall deep into a fissure in the towering limestone crag. Midway up we entered a vast grotto with an underground mountain lake and turned back, panting, to look down upon the majestic moonlit landscape...
...over the Pacific-on Tarawa, on Eniwetok, on Midway, on Guadalcanal and Bougainville; at Noumea and Espiritu Santo and wherever our fleets may be-our soldiers, sailors and marines are now reading TIME each week while that same issue is still fresh on the newsstands here at home. For example...
...Most soap-opera characters are about midway in the U.S. social scale, almost never include factory workers, miners, skilled or unskilled laborers...