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...veteran 37th Division, under a confident Ohio National Guardsman, Major General Robert S. Beightler, drove 22 miles in 24 hours, captured Santiago, then pushed on 15 miles more. To the west, Brig. General Charles E. Hurdis' 6th Division swept up the Japanese trying to escape on Highway...
Elsewhere the campaign went faster. On Luzon's long southeastern tail, elements of Major General Oscar W. Griswold's XIV Corps, spearheaded by Brig. General Hanford MacNider, landed to capture Legaspi and its airfield. Battle-seasoned doughs of Major General William H. Arnold's Americal Division, with Rear Admiral Russell Berkey's group of Seventh Fleet warships blasting the way for them, stormed ashore on Cebu. Midget submarines, attempting to interfere with the landings, were driven off. The Americals captured Cebu city, second largest in the Philippines (peacetime pop. 145,000) with its fine port...
...Brig. Gen. Robert W. Strong, USA, wrote in a letter of recommendation that in view of Lt. Hackett's serious wounds received in battle, he had used him in a training inspection capacity which called for talks to junior officers and men undergoing training, for the purpose of instilling into them the realities of the battlefield...
...group of Navy A.W.O.L.s, now sentenced to the brig, marched up the walk towards the mess hall with three armed marines shepherding them, while the patients hooted: "Who cut your hair short, dearie?'' The silent prisoners kept their eyes straight ahead...
Daughter Jane (Jennifer Jones) is dewily luminous. Daughter Brig is Shirley Temple. Chief reason U.S. cinemaddicts have breathlessly awaited Since You Went Away was to see Miss Temple in her first grown-up part. She is charming...