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...high-octane gas. Engineer Graham studied maps and mulled over the problem at intervals for two months in the spring of 1942. Then he suggested: Why not develop the Canadian oil resources at Nor man Wells? The very next day, General Somervell's signature converted this scant ily researched suggestion into an official Army order (TIME...
...begun burying our own dead, many of whom had been in the water for two days. It was more gruesome than I can describe. This was no dignified burial-a man's last ceremony should be dignified but this wasn't. The bulldozer, whose driver paid scant attention to the sniper who fired at him all the while, scooped a hole three feet deep. The marines, not even covered by a blanket, were laid in the hole. The bulldozer pushed some more dirt over them and that was all there was to it (until burial parties got around...
Lesson In Tactics. The lessons of Tarawa were hard. From admirals down to leatherneck privates there had been great expectations for the massive pre-landing barrage. Warships poured in 2,900 tons of shells, planes dropped 700 tons of bombs. For every square yard of scant square-mile Betio there were 20 lb. of explosive.* Marines, watching the awesome show from their transports, chortled: "There won't be a Jap alive when we get ashore...
...calm confidence of a Corps which assumes that it is the best fighting force in the world. They knew that the most concentrated bombing and shelling in history would precede their landing: almost 1,000 tons of aerial bombs, plus 1.500 tons of shellfire, on Betio's crowded, scant square mile (see cut). But they could not be sure that even this tremendous pre-landing bombardment would wreck the defenses built by the Japs. On the night before battle, sweat-drenched men packed the wardroom, spilled into the passageways to pray with their chaplains...
...critics caned the show unmercifully. But the public, its pockets bulging, is paying scant attention to the critics this season; and to swarms of visiting servicemen and welders, Gypsy Rose Lee is a dazzling name. The second night-reported Columnist Leonard Lyons-Director Kaufman phoned to learn the worst. Todd chuckled: "We had 14 standees." Snapped Kaufman: "Say that slowly. I know you must be hysterical." Said Todd slowly: "Fourteen standees." "Send me the statement, verified," barked Kaufman. "And if what you say is true, then I'll quit show business...