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...planes were readied for the search. The three rescue ships talked back and forth in anxious, inaudible flashes. . . . Four and one-half hours after sending their last cry for help, Flyers Smith and Bronte planed down toward a thorny strip of land guarding a lagoon on the isle of Molokai* in the Hawaiian group. Bushes ripped their ship as it crashed down through a breadfruit tree. But their gasoline had lasted just long enough. They were out of the fog. They were safe...
Judge Edward McCorrison, "Little King" (U. S. magistrate) of Molokai, had seen the wheezing ship pass over his courthouse and was among the first to welcome the visitors. He guided them to the local radio station. The army planes from Honolulu were sent over (60 miles southeast) to pick up heroes instead of victims. Pilot Smith used Charles Augustus Lindbergh's phrase as he set foot on Wheeler Field. "Well," he said, "here...
Colonies for lepers are many. In India alone there are 8,850 lepers and 92 asylums. Just inside the East gate of Canton live 1,400 grey men; more lodge at Hokchiang, at Purulia; there is a famed colony at Molokai, Hawaii; an even more elaborate one on the island of Culion, Philippines, established by the U. S. at great expense in 1906; where the lepers have their own stores, theatres and a special kind of currency...
...Blues planned to seize not Lanai, but Molokai for an air base; then to make a feint with the fleet at the south coast of Oahu, making its main landing attack on the north coast, with a secondary landing on the west coast. As a matter of fact, both Molokai and Lanai were seized. The airplane carrier Langley was kept well at sea to avoid the Black submarines and the Blue airplanes flew to land as soon as the Islands were taken. Before this, the Black airplanes inflicted losses on the landing parties, sinking a tender, but of course could...
Neither was he alarmed when, early one morning, a "Black" scout plane reported six destroyers, one battleship, four cruisers, anchored off Molokai, the island nearest to Oahu. That was merely the advance contingent of the attacking U. S. Armada, coming to rescue Pearl Harbor from "The Enemy...