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...played Honolulu and traveled by "banana truck" to the remotest outposts on the island of Oahu. It will soon tour the outlying islands. Meanwhile Evans (who has done no acting) has in rehearsal such Broadway hits as Boy Meets Girl and My Sister Eileen; eventually he may dish up a little Shakespeare. He thinks blank-verse tragedy will be such a novelty for soldiers that they will like it. To back up his hunch, he points to three wow performances of Mac beth at Fort George G. Meade, last year...
...kept until his retirement last year. In the '20s the high infant-mortality rate on the plantations shocked him, but he thought the plantations potentially "the finest biological test tubes in the world." He talked the Association directors into establishing a health research center on Oahu...
Major General Willis H. Hale, commander of the Army's Seventh Air Force, based on Oahu, said that the raid on Wake was just a rehearsal. "We can continue to do that in the future," he said...
...Eighty Navy planes were destroyed, and 70 others disabled, of the 202 on Oahu. Few of the Army's undamaged planes could take off because the Japs had knocked out the runways. This week's report reveals 97 of 273 Army planes destroyed, unnumbered others damaged...
...second ocean, directing the Atlantic Fleet's undeclared war of 1941. In mid-December, when he was summoned to Washington to be COMINCH of all the fleets, "Betty" Stark was doing his limited best as OPNAV. The Utah and the Arizona gaped from their graves at Oahu, ships slightly more fortunate were being readied for removal and repair, and bombed planes still made ugly piles on the Army fields. The Japs were closing on Manila, hacking away the last Army air forces in the Philippines; MacArthur was looking to Corregidor and Bataan, and Admiral Hart's Asiatic "Fleet...