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The Pacific Is My Beat

FOREWORD 7 CONVOY 17 F. S. No. 3 31 HAIRCUT FOR BATTLE 33 PANDORA'S BANDBOX 41 RECESSIONAL 57 HOME FROM THE SEA 65 WAKE AT WAKE 71 MARCUS 87 THE FLYING TRAPEZE 93 NOT IN COMMUNIQUES 101 ROAD TO TOKYO - OR SEATTLE 107 CARRIERS OFF DUTCH HARBOR 113 THE ZOOMIES 125 INTO THE SOUP 137 BATTLING SPITKIT 145 XVII. WILLIWAW 153 XVIII. CRASH 161 XIX. UMNAK MUD IS DEEP 167 XX.ONE-WAY TICKET 175 XXI. MEATBOX 183 XXII. OVER THE HUMP 199 XXIII. SUBS IN SOUP 207 XXIV. FOUR HUNDRED TONS OF TNT 213 XXV. RESCUE 231 XXVI. SITDOWN IN SITKA 237 XXVII. SNAFU MARU XXVIII. THE MONKS OF TORPEDO JUNCTION 243 XXIX. ALL ASHORE THAT'S GOING ASHORE 255 XXX. ALEUTIAN SUBDIVISION 265 XXXI. PONTOON JOE FROM TOKYO 277 287 ATTU POSTSCRIPT 289 List of Illustrations American planes roar homeward after defeating Japs at Santa Cruz frontispiece FACING PAGE Destroyer Shaw blowing up in the attack on Pearl Harbor 30 Another view of Pearl Harbor wreckage 31 Destruction of the Japanese base at Wotje, Gilbert and Marshall Islands 40 Result of a Jap suicide dive on the flight deck of a carrier 41 Lull before the Marcus Island attack 56 Army bomber taking off from the Hornet, Tokyo bound 57 A Jap torpedo plane attacks the Lexi

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