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While Halsey's Third Fleet was rampaging through Far Eastern seas in the late summer of 1944, engaging in 21 combat actions, his carriers also had to undertake 26 logistic (i.e., supply and troop movement) operations. But as a result of logistics successfully carried out, when the Jap fleet was sighted on Oct. 23, Halsey's fast carrier task force, which had been away from its base for almost two months and had fought 16 actions in that time, was able to engage and smash a Jap fleet in the battle for Leyte Gulf...
...Filipino civilians there. One completely authenticated atrocity story is reported by American officers. From an observation post they watched while the Japs tied a naked, teen-age Filipino girl to a post in front of an archway, to keep our artillery from shelling the archway, which they used for troop movements...
...both regulars and citizen soldiers. The division had long ago been mechanized-but it was still cavalry at heart and its' oldtimers still talked nostalgically of the stable call and of night marches to the rattle of horse accoutrements. In the 1st Division a company was still a troop, a battalion a squadron. Knife-nosed, 46-year-old Major General Verne Donald Mudge was its commander, a cavalryman since he left West Point...
Another spectacular abuse of wartime travel was reported last week by the London Daily Herald, which said that, for a lark, Colonel Glenn Myer, U.S.A.A.F. commander of a troop carrier base in England, had ferried two titled English ladies to Brussels in a U.S. transport plane. Penalties: the ladies were fined $240 apiece for violating British defense regulations; Colonel Myer was summarily recalled...
...plot, like something out of Arabian Nights, takes Robert Hutton, amorous Yale man in "Janie," rapidly from New Guinea, to the Hollywood canteen, the arms of Joan Leslie, and almost the altar, before a troop train arrives to carry him off. The story's main excuse is to try to form a link between the musicalia, which appear every ten minutes. Like "Thank Your Lucky Stars" and "Thousands Cheer," this movie is just an unoriginal variation on the star parade theme...