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Palau. The same day that MacArthur struck, and three months to the day after Saipan, Admiral Nimitz' marines attacked, 500 miles due east of Mindanao. Their target: the Palau Archipelago (five principal islands, 100 smaller ones). Palau was the brightest star (and capital) of Japan's vast mandated empire. "The spigot of our oil barrel," the Japs called it, when their ships left port to tap the great oil reserves of the stolen Indies...
Peleliu Island and its 8,000 Japs (of the 40,000 in the Palaus) were the first target. The island's twelve square miles had been rocked six times in eight days by swarms of Army and Navy bombers. Then for three full days warships smothered Peleliu with a hail of steel...
...pray God to have the strength and courage to go on to the end. Every bullet must kill its Boche, every bomb must find its target. There must be no distinction between soldiers and civilians in the destruction of men, women and children. For we speak of a damned race...
...attacks on Ploesti have reduced its rate of annual output from 5,500,000 metric tons to 2,000,000. Nevertheless Ploesti in August was still providing Germany with about one-third of its total natural and synthetic oil, and Allied airmen still bombed Ploesti as a prime target...
...passenger was Lieut. Colonel James A. Gunn III of Kelseyville, Calif., who had been shot down over the oil fields of Ploesti-"the hottest target on the face of the earth"-two weeks before. He was one of more than 3,000 U.S. airmen downed in Rumania in 13 months of raids. Two-thirds had been killed. But 1,101, plus 25 Britons, were still alive in prison camps around Bucharest. They were well treated but they chafed...