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...crew of the Philippine Clipper was at Wake when the first attack came-18 Jap planes that bombed and strafed the construction camp, the docks and fuel installations. The Clipper was ordered back to Honolulu. The Marines stayed on. Somehow they managed to sink a Jap cruiser and a destroyer. They knocked down two enemy planes...
...Through that day and the following days, the Jap struck in many places from the air. He bombed Nichols Field, just south of Manila, time & again; in one raid alone he lost eleven planes. He struck at Cavite, the Navy's base on Manila's south harbor; there he wrought heavy damage, barely missed the base's commander, weather-beaten Rear Admiral Francis Rockwell...
Youngster officer-pilots of the new Philippine Air Force sailed into the Jap with a daring and skill that popped the eyes of their opposite numbers from the U.S. One army flight of three jumped 20 Jap planes, knocked out three, chased the rest, picked up a straggler on the way home and sent him down in flames. A bombing flight lumbered serenely through heavy ack-ack fire to unload on warships, then kicked off altitude and strafed a landing party on the beach...
...tiny band of Marines made more of the Corps's imperishable history that had its beginnings in the fighting tops of John Paul Jones's Ranger and Bon Homme Richard. They had been there since the first day of war, beating off attack after attack by the Jap. shooting down his planes, sinking his surface ships, probably knocking the spots out of his landing parties. It was "probably" because Wake's Marines-well-trained rifle marksmen, as all leathernecks are-were busy at their prime calling. Between fighting they had little time for dispensing news...
...Hollywood Reporter, trade organ, turned up with a Page 1 item: "First American victory over Japanese was won by the Paramount baseball team Sunday when it defeated the LA Nippons, all-Jap team, 6-to-3. No one was aware of the war until the third inning....F.B.I, men allowed the game to finish...then rounded up Jap contingent...