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June Havoc, blonde, scene-stealing Broadway musicomedienne, invited to a destroyer launching by Navy Lieut. George Gay Jr.-only survivor of Midway-famed Torpedo Squadron 8-gaily stole the Navy's show. The ship had hardly been christened H. J. Ellison (in honor of the Squadron 8 hero) when June turned to her host and cried: "George, I love you so much!" George blushingly admitted to reporters that June was his "girl...
...quickly qualified. The planes, it turned out, had strafed Berchtes-gaden's rail yards-four miles from Hitler's house. Some pilots dropped their auxiliary fuel tanks (which usually explode when they hit) near the castle. Hitler may have been scared-if he was home. The squadron leader had never heard of Berchtesgaden before last week; to him, it was just another kraut village. But Berchtesgaden, like Tokyo's Imperial Palace, is now a place where U.S. planes wander like tourists, taking snapshots and committing nuisances...
...dawn on Feb. 16, a date which will be ringed in red on many a Navy calendar, the carriers turned into the wind to launch planes. Mitscher had been almost as far as this before: he was skipper of the Hornet when she carried Doolittle's daring little squadron toward Tokyo. But in the intervening 34 months, America's seaborne air force had grown beyond recognition. Now, hundreds of planes circled the carriers as they formed up: for two simultaneous dawn strikes, there were (by Jap count) 300 planes in each attack group...
Married. Major General Ralph Royce, 54, muscular ex-commander of the U.S.French First Tactical Air Force in France, onetime Chief of Staff for Air, Southwest Pacific, who led the first aerial squadron in France in 1917, the first Australia-based bombing of Japs on Luzon in 1942; and Agnes Berges, 36, ex-Manhattan hotel executive and overseas Red Cross worker; he for the second time, she for the first; in Detroit...
...task force of Mudge's troopers, under Brigadier General William Curtis Chase, swung wide into the foothills flanking Manila. At 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 3 (25 days after the landing at Lingayen), the 2nd Squadron of the historic 8th Regiment burst into the city from the east. So the 1st Cavalry Division had won the race-and not even the Buckeyes could say there was no justice in the fact: the 1st had sworn to strike a blow for their onetime brigade commander, Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, now in Jap hands. This...