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Units of Major General Rapp Brush's 40th Division landed on the west coast of Negros, fourth largest of the islands. One column drove northeast to capture the capital, Bacolod, another moved to a junction with Filipino guerrillas...
General Douglas MacArthur's troops were getting on with the trying job of reclaiming the Philippines. This week 55-year-old Major General Rapp Brush's 40th Division landed on Panay, westernmost of the Visayas group. MacArthur claimed complete surprise at the beachhead, and the Yanks speedily drove to within ten miles of Iloile, Panay's big port and fifth largest Philippine city. But mountainous Panay, from which Jap aircraft menaced shipping, could be tough to clean out; the Japs may have 5,000 troops there...
...road to Manila, the Jap was still fading backward faster than any U.S. optimist had dared to hope. Major General Oscar W. Griswold's XIV Corps swept ahead, the 37th (Ohio) Division under Major General Robert S. Beightler on the left, and the 40th under Major General Rapp Brush on the right. With its flank protected by the Buckeyes, the 40th rolled into Clark Field in time for General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to announce its capture on his 65th birthday. With more than a dozen runways, Clark was the greatest air base in the Southwest Pacific...
...Jones Brothers, a local trio with an overdoes of vibraharp, with Cecil Scott's house band in the background. The same group will probably be there next Sunday. It's not particularly exciting, but it's better than Vanity Fair's Irsh Thursh or the Roseland's Al Rapp and His Oldtimers...
...shores of the tiny Hawaiian island of Niihau, Major General Rapp Brush last week addressed elderly, squinting Benehakaka Kanahele and young, strapping, sober-eyed Howard Hawila Kaleohano. "You showed fine qualities," Brush said. "When put upon, you took the only action decent people could take." Thereupon he pinned American Legion hero medals on them. Said the spokesman for the Hawaiians in Niihau: "Thank you, we appreciate this greatly but the greatest award is that given us and our country: from on high [air raiders] we have nothing to fear...