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Kamikaze Navy. Almost simultaneously guns roared out from the U.S. ships anchored off the island. Torpedo-nosed Jap suicide boats were attacking in force. Blinding flashes filled the night as the little boats were hit and exploded. Fifteen of them were destroyed; one got through and damaged a ship.
For the big game he was after, he had need of all this statistical ammunition. As a spokesman for 17 U.S. airlines, hawk-nosed Ralph Shepard Damon, vice president and general manager of American Airlines, hoped to kill off, once & for all, the monopolistic chosen instrument-or community company-which...
The Fight. Lean-jawed, contentious Aubrey Williams, social-worker protégé of Harry Hopkins, had been an easy target. Before the Agricultural Committee, the fight was led by Tennessee's knob-nosed, choleric Kenneth McKellar, an old Williams foe, and no holds were barred.
Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes), was newspictured in the snows at Sequoia National Park, Calif., where he and his bride of three weeks are honeymooning.
Meanwhile, landing craft from Mariveles nosed around Corregidor to the south shore. As the assault waves charged up the beach of San José Bay, the Japs were trapped between airborne and seaborne forces. Jap resistance was as tough as usual, but there were not enough Japs to stem the...