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"Next time, even the Japs must realize, we will hit them harder. But no amount of bombing and shelling can obviate the necessity of sending in foot soldiers to finish the job. The corollary is this: There is no easy way to fight a war. and there is no panacea to prevent men from getting killed."
*The Liscome Bay was the first baby flat-top to go down. The U.S. has lost four other carriers, has some 40 of all types now presumably in operation.
*Other record barrages: on Berlin the R.A.F. hurled 2,300 tons of bombs. At El Alamein the British used 600 guns, firing 1,500 shells a minute, on a four-mile front. At Orel the Russians lined up 3,200 gun barrels (some guns were multi-barreled) along every mile of a 20-to 25-mile front. At World War I's Passchendaele, the Allies massed 3,091 guns, or one to every six yards of an elevenmile front, fired them for ten days, threw 4¾ tons of shells for every yard of front.