When Portland left Peleliu in late September 1944, she was detached from the fast carrier task force and assigned to the bombardment force of General MacArthur’s navy, the Seventh Fleet, at its base ...

It bought and broadcast the content of secret radio war orders from the German and British admiralties to merchantmen at sea. This was an obvious violation of the U. S. Communications Act ...

but the private could get $75 a bottle for it in the arid Admiralties). ¶ The officer sold the pistol to another officer for $175. In two more sales the pistol passed to a soldier for three ...

A veteran of some of the toughest fighting in the Admiralties, Tech. Sgt. Michael J. Ryan clambered up the Leyte Island beachhead with a ‘dismounted cavalry’ unit of General [Douglas ...