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Many thanks to you people for printing the truth about the Army shake-up during the battle of Saipan. We have read many explanations of this situation, which is covered completely in TIME, but your story is the first to express the true picture of the circumstance...
...TIME certainly intended no slur to the 27th Division's brave dead or to its embattled G.I.s. Neither the Army nor the Marine Corps has made an official report on the action. Fact remains that the Army relieved many 27th Division officer during and after the Saipan battle...
Last week Hawaii's Governor Ingram M. Stainback announced that the overprint money would be discontinued as fast as it is used up, that regular U.S. currency was again legal. Admiral Nimitz, as commander of the Pacific Ocean areas (Kwajalein, Saipan, Peleliu, etc.), where the "Hawaii" greenbacks have also been used, concurred...
...Navy Lieut. Eugene Sanford, ex-policeman from Evanston, Ill., was riding in a launch off Saipan when he saw a big PB2Y flying boat sinking. Japs who had been hiding in Saipan's caves for three months had swum out to the plane and blown a hole in it with a hand grenade. Lieut. Sanford killed the Japs with a Tommy gun-a fate which they must have known was inevitable...
Last week, arriving in the U.S. from Saipan, where he was chief of staff of the 2nd Marine Division, Colonel Shoup learned that his "indomitable fighting spirit" at Tarawa had won him another award: the Congressional Medal of Honor. His citation: "Colonel Shoup fearlessly exposed himself to the terrific, relentless artillery, machine-gun and rifle fire . . . rallying his hesitant troops . . . gallantly led them across the fringing reefs ... to reinforce our hard-pressed, thinly held lines. Upon arrival at the shore he assumed command of all landed troops and, working without rest under constant, withering enemy fire during the next...