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...Kinkaid that it was divided into four: 1) bombardment and fire-support group, under Vice Admiral Jesse Barrett Oldendorf (victor of Surigao Strait); 2) close cover group, under Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey; 3) San Fabian Attack Force, with troops for the northern beachhead, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey; 4) Lingayen Attack Force, with troops for the southern beachhead, under Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson...
Steps Retraced. General MacArthur had boarded one of Admiral Barbey's ships off Leyte when Oldendorf's force was already off Bataan. On the voyage, the general spent a good part of each day sitting in the doorway of the captain's cabin. He had the air of a man whose work was already done: the planning had been so complete that he had only a few short conferences with his staff. With satisfaction he told LIFE Photographer Carl Mydans: "This is the same route I followed when I came out of the Philippines...
Luzon at Last. It was Tuesday, Jan. 9, when Barbey's landing craft nosed in to the beach extending south from San Fabian. Assault troops streamed ashore in full daylight, direct from LCIs, with no opposition save enemy mortar fire. Wilkinson's group, following Barbey's into the gulf and staking out the southernmost beach west to Lingayen, met no enemy fire, but heavy surf breaking far out complicated the task of landing heavy equipment...
...list of patronesses includes Mrs. Edward Ballantine, Mrs. P. de M. Barbey, Mrs. Fox Conner, Mrs. Archibald T. Davidson, Mrs. Sidney Fay, Mrs. C. Nichols Greene, Mrs. C. H. Haring, Miss Minna F. Holl, Mrs. James R. Jewett, Mrs. Bernard C. Jones, Mrs. Joseph Lee, Mrs. Charles Peabody, Mrs. Edward K. Rand, Mrs. D. P. Rhodes, Mrs. Thomas Russell, Mrs. Harlow Shapley, Mrs. Philip L. Spalding, Mrs. Walter R. Spaulding, and Mrs. Edmund A. Whitman...
Fourteen scholarships and fellowships to students in the Law School for the coming academic year totalling $8,675 or about $800 individually were announced yesterday. The list includes two grants which will make it possible for two foreign students, one from Paris, J. J. Barbey, and one from England, John Meryn Jones, to study here for a year. The scholarship holders include three men from both Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, two each from Illinois and Missouri, and one each from Virginia and Wisconsin...