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...Group in Burma and China did little loafing. At Rangoon, on the ocean entry to the Burma Road, at Kunming, on its inner terminus, at many an airdrome between, A.V.G.'s100-odd U.S. pilots brightened last week's dark record of war in the Pacific with great valor and victories. Outnumbered, their slender stock of early-type P-40s diminished by ground strafing, crashes and a few casualties in the air, they still went by threes and sevens and tens against much larger Jap fighter-bomber formations. Said a spectator in Rangoon: "It looked like a fleet...
Inch by inch, with the glacierlike superiority of sheer mass, the Jap forced his way south on Bataan Peninsula. Before him the last big core of resistance in Luzon stood like a granite cliff of valor. The edges of the glacier crumbled, but mass enough to move mountains seemed to be behind...
MacArthur's combat record was brilliant. Besides two wounds, one gassing and enough praise to turn a modest man's head, he picked up 13 decorations for gallantry under fire, seven citations for extraordinary valor, 24 top decorations of foreign Governments. MacArthur remained overseas for a while with the Army of Occupation. On this tour of duty he met the Prince of Wales, who was gloomy about what he considered certain German resurgence. Said MacArthur: "We beat the Germans this time, and we can do it over again." After an astringent two-year tour of duty...
...Hong Kong, there met the great Sun Yat Sen, who later made Lea his chief military adviser with the rank of general. Lea went with Dr. Sun into exile in Japan. Then he went back to San Francisco and, after years of travel and study, wrote The Valor of Ignorance...
...years, must elapse before armies equal to the Japanese are able to pass in parade. These must then make their way over deserts such as no armies have ever heretofore crossed; scale the intrenched and stupendous heights that form the redoubts of the desert moats; attempting, in the valor of their ignorance, the militarily impossible; turning mountain gorges into the ossuaries of their dead, and burdening the desert winds with the spirits of the slain." At this point Admiral Yamamoto would take a trip to the White House...