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...arrival of the troops and the first boatload of relief supplies dramatized what was happening everywhere in the Philippines. Other 41st Division troops landed at Jolo, the old capital of the Sulu sultans, to take complete control of the Sulu Archipelago. Veteran units of the Americal Division hit the beaches at Bohol, between Leyte and Cebu. In southern Luzon enemy resistance collapsed under the blows of XIV Corps troops...
...boatload of trippers who were circling Vermont's Neshobe Island, summer hideaway of the late Alexander Woollcott, spied, under a vast straw hat, a vast bulk swathed in a dressing gown. "Who on earth is that?" screamed one of the ladies. "Marie Dressier," said her benchmate-thereby adding another quip to the many already provoked by Mr. Woollcott's complex personality...
...officer of a third offered to take the remainder of the Higgins boatload as far as he could. As the men shifted, they saw another craft half a mile ahead puffing smoke, saw figures jumping over its side into the water. By now the Marines real ized that this was going to be a landing, if any, in the face of enemy machine guns...
Combat brought one operation never hinted at in tactics manuals. While flying over the Mediterranean during North Africa's last days, one grasshopper spotted a small boatload of Germans. Pilot and observer fired their pistols. The Germans waved a white handkerchief of surrender and headed in to shore. The pilot landed on the beach, left his observer to guard the prisoners, flew off for reinforcements to come and take them away...
Miss Potter sailed with a lusty boatload of ditch diggers, carpenters, welders, structural iron workers and cat-operators from Seattle. "There were not many women aboard-only a few school teachers and Army and Navy wives, a prostitute and a giggling 250-pound redhead who had arranged her trip through a matrimonial bureau." Miss Potter "heard one well-soused carpenter tell the purser 'Who the hell wants to go up there anyway...