Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farewell and good luck to comrades Warren Jahncke and Earl Tanner. They can give four months boys charge of the old "Mid-off" drive in good style...
...returned to New York and last September went out once more to follow his old friend MacArthur back to the Philippines. On Leyte he went ashore on "Red Beach" with the assault troops. His luck still held...
...Lido Beach, and a man who holds something more than our respect, Lt. Commander Salmon. He was both an inspirational commanding officer and a gentleman. If your men were your commanding officer, Sir, they would say, as you so often have, "Well done." Smooth sailing, and good luck from the youngest of your past commands...
...before year's end. Said the 21st's commander, Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell Jr., after the second assault: "We haven't destroyed the plant-not by a damn sight." After the third blow, he still was not satisfied. "Possum" Hansell's flyers had better luck against the two Mitsubishi plants at Nagoya. The Hatsudoki factory had 600,000 square feet (40% of its built-up area) destroyed or gutted by fire. At Kokuki, photographs showed heavy concentrations of bomb hits directly on the assembly buildings and machine shops...
...strategy was in the destruction of the enemy's armed forces. General MacArthur's running score of Japanese corpses counted in the field topped the 50,000 mark; how many others had died on or around the island was not known with certainty. Men of the hard-luck 32nd (Red Arrow) Division were notoriously hard to please, after successive heartbreaks in New Guinea (TIME, Dec. 4), but a colonel said of them last week: "These paddlefeet are feeling mighty pleased with themselves...