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...achieved command of the air by the end of the war's second week. Close to his air bases, he had poured inferior aircraft south to Luzon, and by numbers taken a toll of better U.S. planes. He had also established three Luzon beachheads, apparently with airdromes: at Legaspi, Aparri, Vigan. Then he opened the battle's second phase...
Therefore canny Douglas MacArthur had committed only a small part of his force to battle on the big island of Luzon. The battles at Legaspi, Aparri and Vigan, where the Japanese had set up beachheads, had been predominantly Air Force shows. The Japanese had grabbed these beachheads apparently to set up airdromes, and they had succeeded, though with heavy losses to men, transports and naval support. General MacArthur still kept a hard core of resistance centered around Manila...
...inspection cruise through the Philippine leprosaria (Culion, Iloilo, Cebu, Legaspi) which 25 world-famed leprosy experts pursued last week served to remind Society that: 1) leprosy still ulcerates the entire earth;* 2) myriads of lepers are segregated (12,000 in the Philippines) ; 3) 2,000,000-3,000,000 cases are at large: 4) the germ of leprosy closely resembles the germ of tuberculosis; 5) leprosy is not especially communicable, far less so than syphilis; 6) cleanliness and general hygiene prevent leprosy's spread; 7) lepers' children are not born leprous, but catch the disease when very young...