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...Americans had come back. Filipinos; ran excitedly through the shellfire laughing, crying, cheering to be inside the U.S. lines. When U.S. troops marched into the streets of Tacloban, women in bright dresses crowded every window and doorway ; old men sprang to exaggerated attention to salute every U.S. uniform; toddlers had somewhere learned to make the "V" sign with their fingers...
Whipped to desperation, the Japs sprang into action. Pearl Harbor announced that a great sea-air battle was raging off Formosa. If the Jap surface forces should come out, this might develop into the decisive naval battle...
...headlight of the Dixie Flyer, pounding south from Chicago. Locomotive Engineer Frank Blair stared hard ahead, to catch the dim gleam of the rails. Suddenly, about five miles from Terre Haute, he saw something which few railroad engineers have seen, under the modern railroad signal systems.* Into the headlight sprang the headlight of another locomotive, on the single track ahead. Frank Blair's palm hit the throttle; he jerked at the air brakes. The huge drivers screeched and slid, and Engineer Blair dived...
...Manila residents to complete their air-raid shelters. Tokyo also announced (at least to the outside world) that Davao, the Philippines' second city, had been evacuated of civilians in anticipation of American landings. There were no landings at Davao last week, but in two other places the U.S. sprang forward again...
Navy Minister Angus Lewis Macdonald, a lean Maritimer, slumped in his leather chair and studied the ceiling in Ottawa's press gallery. Then he sprang the news: back in 1941 the Dominion Government had committed itself to a Navy of at least 9,000 men after the war. Minister Macdonald himself thought a force of 15,000 would be "more likely ... [to] satisfy Canadians," hoped the nation would keep two cruisers, two carriers and eight destroyers in postwar fighting trim, with lesser craft to match...