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Those who could and would talk displayed a wide range of reaction. Few could understand why Tokyo had been bombed and could see no point in comparing it with Manila's destruction...
MacArthur used the Eighth as his second team in the invasion of the Philippines. Under Eichelberger it mopped up on Leyte (where Eighth Army men killed 26,000 Japs). In the assault on Luzon its role was also secondary, but brilliant: a landing below Manila, climaxed by a razzle-dazzle airborne assault...
...Pacific puddle, may soon get fast-hopping company. Last week Civil Aeronautics Board examiners recommended that Northwest Airlines, Inc. should be given a transpacific route. The examiners, whose findings are usually followed by CAB, recommended that Northwest fly the adventurous Great Circle route from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Manila via Alaska, Paramushiro, Tokyo and Shanghai. As Northwest now flies from New York to Minneapolis (TIME, Jan. 1), it would thus have the first direct service from New York to the Orient...
...something too. The examiners recommended that Pan Am hold its prewar mid-Pacific service from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Hong Kong via Manila, expand to Tokyo, Bangkok, Batavia and Calcutta, where it would connect up with Pan Am's routes east from New York, thus nearly circle the globe. It would also keep its prewar route to New Zealand and add a route to Australia via Noum...
Along the Northwest Passage to the Orient, Northwest will have two advantages over its mid-Pacific rival: 1) most of the flying will be overland, where emergency bases can be built; 2) the route will be shorter. New York will be 9,537 air miles from Manila via Northwest's route, v. 10,588 miles via San Francisco and Honolulu...