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...Filipinos of a flight led by Captain Jesus Vallamor. Over Batangas, near Manila, Villamor's flight ran into two flights (27 each) of Japanese bombers. The Filipinos attacked, shot down two and broke up the Japanese formations. Manila reports indicated that Villamor and Lieutenant Caesar Basa were cited for bravery...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was faced with a title change for its forthcoming musical, I'll Take Manila...
...Manila communicates with California directly by R.C.A. and A.T. & T. radiotelephone (a point-to-point system employing short waves outside the broadcast band). On deck in Manila for CBS were Tom Worthin and Ford Wilkins, for NBC local radioman Bert Silen, for Mutual Royal Arch Gunnison of North America Newspaper Alliance. Burly Bert Silen had assured NBC in Manhattan that he could "broadcast any time, even during actual bombing...
Silen's description of the first Japanese bombing of Manila gave listeners in the U.S. plenty to think about. Nothing like it is likely to happen again. Next day R.C.A. relaying of broadcasts from Marrila ceased, not to be resumed for two days and then only under a censorship that required broadcasters to submit their script well in advance of air time. Excerpts of what Bert Silen and his relief announcer Don Bell put on the radio telephone in the shiny moonlight during the first raid...
...Most liberal (written by Metropolitan Life and others) covers death not due to acts of war, even if it occurs while the insured is in the armed forces and outside the U.S. Beneficiary of a soldier who dies in an auto accident in Manila can collect...