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...answer to Robert Sherrod's Saipan question on the possible suicide of Japanese civilians when we reach Japan (TIME...
...weather lands of the South Pacific abound with broad-snouted weevils. The weevils ruin ordinary rice before the men get it. But the Quartermaster's Office can put "converted rice" into any kind of bag, ship it to New Guinea or Saipan and never worry about weevils because the milling process makes each grain so slick and hard the weevil can't make a dent in it. It can be stored indefinitely...
...reviewed the Army's famed 7th Division, veterans of Attu and Kwajalein. Over the loudspeaker Franklin Roosevelt said: "Your Commander in Chief brings you greetings. . . ." The President's car had just stopped at one corner of Hickam Field when a huge ambulance plane wheeled in from Saipan. The President watched as 32 bandaged veterans were carried to waiting ambulances, stopped three stretcher cases to shake their hands...
...west, Major General L. Claire Chennault's Liberators smashed at Japanese shipping on the Whangpoo near Shanghai. Northeast of the Philippines the Volcano Islands, halfway between the southern Marianas and Tokyo, were raided by Major General Willis Hale's Liberators from new bases on Saipan. Hale's Seventh Air Force heavies also smashed at the Bonins, still closer to Tokyo. From the north Aleutian-based bombers attacked the Kurils...
...right. The raid was a phase of the Navy attack on nearby Saipan. The bombers appeared often after that. Hysterical Japs began cutting off the heads of natives who even looked at the sky. Then one day at last Tweed saw what he had been waiting for two and a half years-the lean, grey ships of the U.S. Navy...