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...This target, like Tarawa, leaves very little except to take it by force of arms, character and courage...
...that "there was only a moment to look around in the moonlight as my chute opened. I landed in a pear tree, which was a good shock absorber, but I didn't filter through to the ground; instead I dangled helplessly about three feet above ground, a perfect target for the snipers I could hear not far away...
Lieut. Commander Philip Torrey, skipper of the Essex' Air Group 9, was a brave man. But when the target was announced, he later recalled, "My first instinct was to jump overboard." On the first day at Truk, 127 land-based Jap planes were shot down, 77 more were bagged on the ground. On the second day, not one got off the ground. Two of the hardiest myths of the war in the Pacific had been exploded: 1) Truk was not impregnable; 2) in a contest with seaborne planes, land-based air power was no better than its planes...
Because of the traditional generosity of people in show business, Hollywood has been a target for more than its share of charity appeals. To be sure that its money goes where it will do the most good, the motion-picture industry five years ago set up a Permanent Charities Committee composed of representatives of all guilds, unions and other industry groups. . . . Hollywood's record for giving [was] termed by P. G. Winnett, campaign chairman, Los Angeles area War Chest, "an exceptional one" and "a convincing example for less civic-minded groups...
Meanwhile the B-29s picked a new target on Japan and (by Jap account) followed a new roundabout course to reach the Tokyo area. About 100 of the Superfortresses took as their target the huge Nakajima Ota aircraft factory, 40 miles northwest of the capital. A half-dozen major buildings were splattered with bomb bursts. While the attack was going on, Japan's central island of Honshu shuddered also from a natural earthquake...