Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mydans was one of the only three American correspondents aboard MacArthur's own flagship when he returned to Luzon. And ever since Bill Chickering was killed by enemy action in Lingayen Gulf, he has been doing double duty for LIFE and TIME in reporting MacArthur's triumphs at the scene of his 1941 retreat...
...Japs were as badly off. Since the landings in Lingayen Gulf began, not one of their surface ships had appeared to dispute Allied control of the sea lanes. 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...
...Surprise. With Company M of the 12th Infantry, Private Krueger took part in a 25-mile advance from Angeles to Tarlac, Aguinaldo's capital. But Aguinaldo had fled, and the 12th pursued him vainly all the way through Luzon's central plain to Dagupan on Lingayen Gulf. To the Madison Courier Krueger wrote excellent descriptions of the campaign, explaining: "Undoubtedly you see a good deal written about . . . the Philippines, but I thought, although many professors may have their theories about these islands, 'a fool here knows more than six wise men at home...
Born. To Audrey Madden Chickering and TIME'S late Correspondent William Henry Chickering: a son, their second, ten days after Correspondent Chickering was killed by enemy air action in Lingayen Gulf (TIME, Jan. 22); in San Francisco. Name: William Henry III. Weight...
...stretches in hospital gave him time to analyze the gulf between homefront and warfront-something that never fails to prey on the minds of returning war correspondents. "After an absence of two years, New York looks normal," wrote Timesman Atkinson last week. "Despite many shortages in variety and volume, the food is excellent. . . . Shop windows along Fifth Avenue look brazenly luxurious, although everyone complains that 'you can't buy a thing. . . .' People seem to be living under tension, which is apparent in the boorishness and impatience of public manners. There is an overtone of desperation...