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General Douglas MacArthur prefers to watch, not duck, when enemy planes attack. It was so at Corregidor; it was so last week at Leyte. A .50-caliber bullet from a Jap strafing plane pierced the wall of his command post building, passed within a foot of his head...
Technical Sergeant Lew Ayres, serving on Leyte as a chaplain's assistant with U.S. liberation forces, helped give medical treatment to Filipino victims of Jap bombings. Recognized by natives from his cinema role as Dr. Kildare, he said: "It gave me more of a thrill to be recognized by these people than by movie fans...
Farm boy Dick Bong's top score of 33 Jap planes was almost broken in 95 minutes of furious fighting during the second battle of the Philippines, when Commander David McCampbell, piloting a Hellcat, shot down nine Jap fighters (plus two "probables"). McCampbell's air-combat total after his rampage: 30-which made him the second-ranking...
Flying over southeast Asia, Major Walter V. Radovich began to think about his 18-months-old son - and also about God. The Major was a crack fighter pilot. He had shot down four Jap planes, had flown through a defile not much wider than his plane's wings to blow up an enemy munition train, had won the Distinguished Flying Cross. But there was something on the Major's conscience which would give him no rest...
Bugs, Crabs, Volcanoes. On Guadalcanal they found the thick, heavy soil covered with high, knife-edged kangaroo grass, had to use bulldozers borrowed from the Seabees before they could even begin to plow. On Kolombangara, in the Solomons, they planted a former Jap airstrip of coral, already well stirred up by bombs. As they moved on again, they met new gardener's curses: land crabs, wild pigs, volcanic ground that was hardly arable, odd varieties of scavenging bugs. But by the time they reached the Marianas, they had met and licked almost all the problems of tropical farming...