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...Then a large plane carrying a 500-or 1,000-lb. bomb came from the starboard. Mount 2 put a 5-inch projectile squarely into it and the plane disintegrated 200 yards from us. Another plane apparently hit by the air patrol came by in a mass of flame and crashed off the port bow. The next Jap plane knocked off the other yardarm and crashed alongside. The last plane approached from the starboard and dropped a bomb amidships, killing several men in the wardroom where a doctor was treating the wounded...
East of Manila a hot rain of incendiary bombs fell into the jungles of Woodpecker Ridge, where Jap machine gunners had been holding up the 38th Division. Flame-throwing tanks probed the wooded draws hiding enemy positions. From catapults such as the Romans used, drums of fire were hurled into caves...
...stuff turned the jungles of Woodpecker Ridge into a roaring mass of flame. Writhing Japs bolted from their caves, glowed, crisped and died...
There are hundreds of American airmen alive and back home now because of these "decadent" French people. . . . They kept alive the flame of freedom under the heel of the Gestapo...
Arleen Whelan, 28, flame-haired, green-eyed stage & screen starlet and ex-manicurist, got undivided attention from a committee of 65 illustrators, who awarded her a wellrounded, unequivocal title: "the most perfect all-over beauty of all time." Runner-up: the Venus de Milo...