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...point that Pacific war veterans could elaborate upon. The Japanese bombers that destroyed the Navy and Air Forces in Manila, and the ground troops that held the Philippines until MacArthur's troops fought their way back, came from Formosa...
...orange juice, water, sugar, salt & pepper. -In March 1949, one of LeMay's B-50s, Lucky Lady II, flew 94 hours and 23,452 miles nonstop around the world from Carswell Air Force Base, Texas. It refueled from B-29 tankers over the Azores, Dhahran (Saudi Arabia), Manila and Hawaii. *An Ohio State classmate: Milton Caniff, creator of comic-strip Airmen Terry, Flip Cor-kin, Steve Canyon. -A bad sinus condition years ago paralyzed some of LeMay's facial muscles, making smiling difficult and exaggerating his reputation for ferocity. He has long used a pipe or a cigar...
Slow Boat. In La Crosse, Wis., Richard Klaber finally got a check for $374.30, authorized by Congress in 1945 to reimburse him for his passage home from Manila after the Spanish-American...
When chubby Mrs. Maria Concepcion Lim Planas of Manila read about the U.N.'s appeal for men and arms for the Korean war, she saw her duty clear. It happened, she wrote to the Philippines' President Elpidio Quirino, that she had a lot of war material on her hands, and she would be delighted to contribute it to the U.N.'s cause. The Manila Evening News quickly made a report: Housewife Planas had several depots of "armored cars, trucks, machine guns . . . 1,000 tanks . . . all sorts of field equipment... the biggest pool of war equipment...
March 30, 1942, after MacArthur had arrived in Australia from Bataan to assume supreme command of all Allied forces in the far Pacific. Said TIME: "On Corregidor, where the great guns leered at the Japs across Manila Bay, it was night when MacArthur left. It was night in Bataan, where the soldiers slept or watched and the P-40s rested under the trees. It was the time for General MacArthur to leave the Philippines, his men, his second home, his assured place in history...