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...York; Robert A. Fisher, Birmingham, Michigan; Donald L. Garfield, Cambridge; Paul G. Garrity, Cambridge; Don L. Geeson, Alexandria, Virginia; Albert M. Gibson, Greenville, Michigan; Francis C. Gray, Jr., Boston; David Green, Valpariso, Michigan; William H. Guild, Hingham; Theodore R. Gullicksen, Quincy; Roscoe P. Hankin, Davidsonville, Maryland; Richard W. Homans, Canton; Dabney S. Johnson, Jacksonville, Florida...
...impatient Americans in Luzon were rushing back onto Bataan and Corregidor. Other Americans swarmed ashore on Iwo Jima-an island as menacingly close to Japan's heart as Bermuda is to New York. The war-worn Chinese rallied to take back a section of the hard-won Canton-Hankow railway line. A jungle-trekking British force popped up to menace the conquered oil-field district of Burma. There were more fires than fire brigades, around the Empire; and the alarm bells still clanged...
...battlefields northeast of Canton, darkness persisted. The Japanese who had overrun the American air bases at Suichwan and Kanhsien pressed on to Namyung, source of steel-hardening wolfram. The great airfield at Sincheng, big enough for B-29s, was lost just nine days after an army of coolies had completed the heartbreaking task of pounding the runways smooth and straight...
That was last December. Last week, in her second big Met role (Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde), Thebom did it again. The sustained critical cheers confirmed her triumph: not only had she successfully made the rare and perilous jump from a Baptist church choir loft in Canton, Ohio to the Metropolitan's stage, but she could plan to stay a while...
...Instead, their own cargo carriers and escort craft were being bombed and strafed from Indo-China to the Ryukyus. Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet carriers (16, by enemy count) sent planes up & down the coast and the island chain. They hammered Hong Kong, Swatow, Amoy and Canton in China; Takao on Formosa; Okinawa in the Ryukyus. Primarily, their job was to keep the Japs from flying planes or shipping supplies and reinforcements to Luzon. Also, if an enemy naval force should appear, Halsey would be ready...