Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oldendorf's floating batteries poured it on all day, raking the coast from San Fernando south to San Fabian and west to Lingayen. Jap troops were scattered; cheering Filipinos streamed down to the beaches until the gunfire made it too hot for them. Next day Oldendorf was still at it. Japanese soldiers streamed out to the north, using pushcarts and bicycles...
...supplied close air support. The Japanese description of the scene was nothing if not vivid: "The whole area of Lingayen Gulf is detonating with the fiercest bombardment ... by the enemy surface units as well as the large carrier-borne plane bombings. . . . Superheavy guns mounted in the fortresses of San Fernando, Bauang, Damortis and other places on the coast of Lingayen Gulf are sending up a terrible barrage and are giving the hottest reception ever recorded in the annals of war to the oncoming enemy convoys. . . . Bellows from our guns spread roaringly across the bay. . . . The enemy task force has battleships...
...various beds in the suite tumbled the Ambassador to Ecuador, the Minister of Labor, the President's attorney, his aide-de-camp, a nephew, and the President's youngest son, 25-year-old Princeton man Fernando Lopez Michelsen. They all got dressed, arranged themselves comfortably about the sitting room and tried to appear at ease. The President and his party chatted pleasantly on harmless topics, watching the rifles...
...outsize jockey. It has taken him only about three years to gallop an idea, and little else, into his San Diego daily. The idea: local news sheets handed free to Los Angeles County's swarming war workers (TIME, Nov. 2, ). Last August McKinnon sold these throwaways - the San Fernando Valley Times, Los Angeles Aircralt Times, Long Beach Shipyard Times (they had grossed $700,000 in ads in 1942) 1942)-and 1942)-and moved to San Diego where he set up the triweekly Progress-Progress-Journal...
...cruelty began on the very day of surrender. It flowered in a carnival of sadism on the 85-mile march from Bataan to San Fernando, a trek since known to all the prisoners as the "March of Death." Colonel Dyess, subsequently killed in a U.S. plane crash, described...