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Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan's forces made a 40-mile advance below surrounded Bhamo, threatened to cut in behind Jap troops retreating from the Salween and had a chance to clear the whole blocked sector of the Burma Road...
...Jap captain of the midget sub who performed the feat of penetrating harbor nets and mapping Battleship Row got the identities of the U.S. warships all wrong, put many of them at the wrong moorings...
...wages on Saipan and Tinian have been fixed at a standard level of 35 to 50? a day, plus food, clothing, shelter. That is enough for the Jap, Korean and Chamorro laborers to buy U.S. cigarets (at 7? a pack),* cloth, soap, toilet paper, shampoo, dark glasses, and occasional candy bars-all covered by rigid price ceilings...
Experience gained in the Marianas may well set the pattern for administration of Jap territory occupied in the future. The civil affairs section in Tinian is already planning the next step: private business operated by native businessmen...
...handsome, 27-year-old Lieut. Colonel Edward A. Flanders, one of the top 10% in West Point's class of '40. When "Wonder Boy" Flanders arrived on Saipan, the invasion was only five days old and the battle still raged. Aslito Airfield, a 3,900-ft. Jap fighter strip, had been nailed down by U.S. forces only two days before...