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Days before the attack, Jap midget submarines operated inside the Pearl Harbor nets, plotting the mooring locations of U.S. battleships...
...Midget craft made such attacks on the fleet off Okinawa in the first days of May. In a ramming incident off Luzon, disclosed by the Navy last week, a large support landing craft was destroyed by two small boats packed with explosives, which "just disintegrated against the side of the ship," killing 24 U.S. sailors...
...Assistant Philippine Sugar Administrator gravely warned of a probable sugar shortage in 1946. The jungle was closing in on many sugar plantations abandoned during Jap occupation. The midget railways that hauled cane from the fields to the mills had been carried away by the Japs...
...Corps, spearheaded by Brig. General Hanford MacNider, landed to capture Legaspi and its airfield. Battle-seasoned doughs of Major General William H. Arnold's Americal Division, with Rear Admiral Russell Berkey's group of Seventh Fleet warships blasting the way for them, stormed ashore on Cebu. Midget submarines, attempting to interfere with the landings, were driven off. The Americals captured Cebu city, second largest in the Philippines (peacetime pop. 145,000) with its fine port and airfield...
Radio and newspaper reporters are the likeliest peacetime users of this midget. Other possible customers: traveling businessmen, detectives, blackmailers. "And students who want to sleep in the classroom," Inventor Camras suggests...