VAST U.S. ARMADA FIGHTING IN MARSHALLS; LANDING UNCONFIRMED; WAKE ISLE BOMBED (2/1/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 2/1/44 | George F. Horne, Bertram D. Hulen, W.H. Lawrence, Milton Bracker, C.L. Sulzberger, Reynolds Packard

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Tax-chick]

FDR didn't want news of atrocities to jeopardize his Germany first strategy.

To be fair, we started moving in the Pacific remarkably quickly after Pearl Harbor and the first few months of Japanese victories.

[henkster]

I see CNO Ernest J. King’s hand in all of this. He’s been pushing for diversion of resources, especially naval, ever since the Italian Fleet was neutralized. With the growing power of the fleet, he knows it’s time to unleash hell on the Japanese.

[Southack]

[colorado tanker]

Alton Knappenberger survived the war and lived to 2008.

[colorado tanker]

Every time I read a dispatch from Anzio or Cassino I just get ticked off. With few exceptions, like Truscott, the first string had abandoned the Italy fight to second stringers, and a lot of men died as a result.

[CougarGA7]

Wait till you see the other maps I’m going to post. This posting from the 1st is the last one where the beachhead is expanding.