Elizabeth Stanton (AP 69) - Naval Cruise Book

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Bos ' n Mate Receives Ihiil Cllatinii. The Captain Presents the Bai. CnnKraliilatiiiM !

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elween the Crosses Row on Row Guadalcanal. ■:mist » s. rx!:mBe p%a Uncle Sam Pavs Tlirou;;li the Nose. The Native liiiilt Chapel at Guadalcanal. P

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•A Approach to Tinian. m ai ianad Guam was the only American possession in the Marianas before the war, and the Japs quickly wiped that off our slate after Pearl Harbor. Since then, we have written it down again, adding Tinian and Saipan, doing thereby a little slate-wiping of our own on the Japanese blackboard. When tlie Lizzie got to those islands, the air force was already using them as bases for the B-29 raids on Japan proper. We of the Lizzie talked to the men who were flying over Tokio and Nagoya and Yokohama, and we watched their big planes take off for the raids that will make possible the eventual Army and Navy invasion of the Japanese homeland. Prisoners of War. iiLrfv: y A JSrm:F:f:f ' ;%jr '