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Before dawn of the 7th, the 225-mile end run from Leyte Gulf through Surigao Strait and up into the Camotes Sea, had been completed. Almost a hundred craft under Rear Admiral Arthur Dewey Struble, a Normandy veteran, lay off shore. At 6:30 the destroyers opened up on the beaches with 5-inch guns; after 20 minutes, LCIs carrying rocket launchers belched their loads onto a 1,200-yd. beachhead. At 7:07 (because General Bruce likes sevens for his 77th), the first troops sloshed up the beaches, without a casualty. Most of the Japs had been sucked into...
...evidence, the Secretaries found, did not warrant court-martialing any Army or Navy officer for what he did or failed to do preceding the Pearl Harbor attack. Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel would not get his day in court, which he has demanded. Major General Walter C. Short had been punished enough when he was removed, like Kimmel, from his command...
...Freedoms. Having lost his main battle, Lord Swinton fought a rear-guard action under cover of the five freedoms. Complaining that the freedoms, as drawn, were too favorable to the U.S., he blocked any agreement. (One British delegate talked bitterly of "the freedom to strangle small nations.") In a final attempt to end this deadlock last week, Berle, who resigned as Assistant Secretary of State this week (see U.S. AT WAR), presented a "take it or leave it" version of the freedoms...
...were tempered by the thought that at least the boys overseas were getting plenty. But that small comfort began to disappear fortnight ago when the weekly G.I. ration in London was cut from seven to five packs. Last week it vanished altogether when cigaret sales were stopped in all rear-area PXs in France and England, except at air combat stations, rest and replacement centers, and hospitals. Clamored the Army newspaper Stars & Stripes: "Where are the cigarets...
...comfort and well-being so that all his strength and cunning might be preserved for the erection of ever larger monuments, memorial shafts, triumphal arches, pyramids and obelisks to the eternal glory of generals on horseback, tyrants, usurpers, dictators, politicians, and other heroes -who led him, usually from the rear, to dismemberment and death...