FDR remained seated in the back of the red touring car, hat pushed back on his forehead, and watched an hour-long live firing demonstration through binoculars. Green-clad infantrymen crawled under wire, then rose and advanced across a field in a line abreast, firing machine guns and flamethrowers from the hip. The finale was a coordinated practice assault on a plywood mockup of a Japanese village. Then the motorcade headed south on the coast road, stopped at the Naval Air Station at Kaneohe Bay, and returned to Waikiki (as the White House daily log noted) by way of “Kaialua, the Amphibious
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