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Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey had ridiculed the Jap air force as fifth or sixth rate, "instead of third rate." Vice Admiral Marc A. ("Pete") Mitscher had said that suicide planes were "not more than 2% effective . . . they don't worry us very much." But the weight of the Navy's own evidence seemed to indicate that the admirals might have been indulging in the ancient game of fanning the breeze. Navy censors passed a less cheery opinion in a dispatch from Stanley Woodward, burly, globe-trotting sports editor of the New York Herald Tribune: "There...
...announced sunk, the cruiser Nashville and two more destroyers damaged in December. Two ships were admittedly hit in March, seven in April, four in May, one in June. Presumably others among the 80-odd ships hit during the Okinawa battle were victims of suicide pilots. Radio Tokyo says all Jap pilots now are suicidal...
...Marine Division, had distinguished himself again-this time by plunging into a burning plane and dragging three men to safety. On Guam last year the onetime All-America football player (University of California) had won the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" by leading his men in repelling three heavy Jap counterattacks, and by refusing evacuation though he was twice wounded. His own men know Bob Herwig only as an exceptional officer. They have all but forgotten what U.S. civilians would probably regard as his greatest claim to fame: he is also the husband of Kathleen Winsor, author...
...already sprouted rows of cheap wood and tin shops amid the ruins. There, Filipinos and free-spending U.S. soldiers & sailors can buy a scoop of ice cream for $1 ; a pair of U.S.-made shoes for $120; a woman's dress of sleazy material for $35; or a Jap-made bicycle, which sold for $20 before...
...Mickey Mouse Era. Cause of the inflation was no mystery. The Islands were picked clean by the Japs and goods are scarce. Souvenir-hunting G.I.s and well-heeled Filipinos snap up the thin leavings at any price. Moreover, the Filipinos themselves became accustomed to fantastic prices when the Japs flooded the Islands with their "Mickey Mouse" paper money. At one time, five pounds of rice cost 1,000 pesos in Jap printing-press currency...