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Spirits were high. "We've been ready to do this job for some time," said Karch, an Annapolis-trained veteran who had fought on Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. "There's a sense of relief at the prospect of getting some action...
...projected into the skies, from the 1920s' Mae Murray of the bee-stung lips, the memory of whom is still enough to make old men tumble from rooming house porches, to Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood's last legend of sex. Fighting men in training for Cassino and Saipan were supplied with endless photos of film Aphrodites-Jane Russell in the hay; Rita Hayworth in a negligee; Betty Grable wearing high heels, an ankle bracelet, and a one-piece bathing suit; Lana Turner in the sweater...
...They Bounce. A Vermonter, Greene is an Annapolis graduate, won his first Legion of Merit for planning the Marshall Islands invasion, his second for combat on Saipan and Tinian. In 1956 he headed the investigation into the Parris Island recruit drownings, later revised the Corps' training program. Since early 1958 Greene has been in Washington, the last three years as Shoup's chief of staff...
...half-drowned in tropic downpours, James Fahey, Seaman First Class, and 1,300 shipmates fought through from the Solomons to the surrender of Japan. Montpelier's guns blasted away furiously in a dozen Solomons engagements; Fahey complained of the noise in his ears. After the decisive battles off Saipan and in the Philippine Sea: "We played checkers on watch. I slept topside as usual." Watching the recapture of Corregidor: "It took approximately 15 seconds for the parachutists to hit land. A few of the chutes failed to open." Of a bomb hit on Montpelier herself: "More casualties, all wounded...
...smoking more and enjoying it less, while the most renowned motion pictures of the present are being made by Europeans and Asians. Hence there is a new phenomenon-the movie idol who is adored throughout the U.S. in much the same way that Clark Gable was once admired from Saipan to Tangier. The greatest of these is Italy's Marcello Mastroianni...