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...From Leyte in the Philippines, the Army Signal Corps was ready to transmit Douglas MacArthur's afternoon communiqué. Leyte's first words: "Have you anything on the election yet?" The answer: "Not yet." Said Leyte: "Just break in when you have anything." Then came the communiqu...
...Marianas took few casualties and did little damage. But it was clear that the enemy was making a determined drive to capitalize on his front-line land planes now that his front-line ships and carrier planes had been crippled. He did some bomb damage (unspecified in U.S. communiqués) to U.S. ships off Leyte...
Counterattack. By this time the Japs were finally goaded to counterattack. So far, not a U.S. ship had been damaged. But as the sun set behind Formosa's jagged peaks, the Jap air force found Mitscher's task groups. The next U.S. communiqué reported the Jap attack beaten off but (perhaps significantly) omitted the familiar reassurance-"no damage to our surface ships...
Turnblad got off a bulletin over the A.P. domestic wire. Then the Honolulu teletype bucked and started again with the last line of the attack story, quoting Admiral Nimitz: "This communiqué, incidentally, is dated late June, 1592." Turnblad's whistle died. He fired a stop order after his bulletin, soon enough to catch the newspapers, but too late to prevent a broadcast over some San Francisco stations...
Some commentators, notably Walter Lippmann, were still debating which of several strategies the Allies would employ against the Jap. But it now became clear that all possible strategies could be used, all routes to Tokyo could be traversed. Said the conference's sole communiqué: the "barbarians of the Pacific" will be destroyed...