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...three Middle Eastern potentates on a U.S. warship in Great Bitter Lake (see INTERNATIONAL...
...appearances considerable sweetness had been restored to Great Bitter Lake (midway along the Suez Canal) when Franklin Roosevelt aboard his warship successively received King Faronk, Emperor Haile Selassie and King Ibn Saud. The nature of the sweetness, according to a White House announcement...
...very favorably, may even retreat to the hills and make our initial success easy. . . ." His hunch was right, but he wasn't there to see for himself. On Jan. 6 he was killed by enemy air action in Lingayen Gulf. He was standing on the bridge of a warship; he and the British liaison officer, General Lumsden (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), were killed at the same moment...
...first day of the Luzon bombardment General Lumsden was killed on the bridge of a U.S. warship in Lingayen Gulf. In London, the War Office announced his death "with deep regret." MacArthur did better by him: "It is superfluous for me to speak of the complete courage which this officer so frequently displayed. . . . His general service and usefulness to the Allied cause was beyond praise...
...Last week, the Japs were still able to fly bombers off Iwo Jima after 21 consecutive days of pounding by U.S. heavies and three warship bombardments...