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Ground Forces at adjoining Fort Stotsenberg. The Navy will keep its big lash-up on Leyte Gulf...
...seemed only proper that the Armored Force should honor its first casualty of World War II. So a ceremony was arranged at Fort Knox, to name the main parade ground Brooks Field after Private Robert Brooks, killed in action near Fort Stotsenberg in the Philippines. Armored Force public-relations officers telephoned to the Mayor of Sadieville, Ky., Brooks's hometown, to ask him to invite the soldier's mother and father to the ceremony. Gladly, said the Mayor. But was the Army aware that Brooks's parents were Negro sharecroppers...
...Clark Field alongside Fort Stotsenberg, 50 miles northwest of Manila, the gun crews had just finished their noonday Monday dinner when the Jap struck. Well-trained but combat-raw, the gunners spotted a precise formation of 52 planes high in the blue sky. They watched, began to wonder. Then they knew...
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