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Page 192
... Saipan , I was anxious about the pilots of our new air group . Without any pre- liminaries they were going right into the " Big Leagues . " Princeton Helps Take Saipan Before dawn on June 11 we got our fighters away and struck Saipan ...
... Saipan , I was anxious about the pilots of our new air group . Without any pre- liminaries they were going right into the " Big Leagues . " Princeton Helps Take Saipan Before dawn on June 11 we got our fighters away and struck Saipan ...
Page 209
... Saipan and Tinian . So completely did we master the air that our battleships and cruisers were able to go in close and bombard with heavy shells strong points on the beaches with little opposition from the air . On D Day , June 15th ...
... Saipan and Tinian . So completely did we master the air that our battleships and cruisers were able to go in close and bombard with heavy shells strong points on the beaches with little opposition from the air . On D Day , June 15th ...
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... Saipan . When the field was nearly completed , the big planes started the flight across the Pacific . They reached Saipan just as the last few yards of runway were finished . We built , just in the European Theater of Operations ...
... Saipan . When the field was nearly completed , the big planes started the flight across the Pacific . They reached Saipan just as the last few yards of runway were finished . We built , just in the European Theater of Operations ...
Contents
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Face of Japan By W Robert Moore 753 | vii |
Takeoff for Japan 22 illustrations in color from U S Navy photographs 193 | xiii |
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