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...MacArthur's command struck repeatedly at Davao, capital of Mindanao. U.S. carriers, of which more than 50 now roam the Pacific, hammered Halmahera, the Jap island stronghold which MacArthur bypassed in occupying Morotai. Still other carrier planes ranged 325 miles behind Palau to strike the Jap base of Yap...
...Pacific, fronting on the Philippine Sea. Saipan and Guam could serve only as staging points for a fleet; what was wanted was a landlocked basin such as Pearl Harbor, a blue lagoon like Kwajalein, Eniwetok or Majuro. A fine harbor could be had at Palau, a poorer one at Yap; a lagoon could be secured at one of several atolls in the western Carolines-far beyond the bypassed enemy strongholds of Truk and Ponape...
...likelihood last week the main units of Japan's fleet were based along the Jap lifeline which stretches from the homeland to The Netherlands East Indies, a line which passes through Palau and Yap, strong bases 470 and 750 miles off the coast of the Philippines. Sooner or later the U.S. would be in a position to strike at that line. It is there that the Jap fleet may make its last-ditch defense, when the U.S. fleet is 4,000 miles from Pearl Harbor...
...Michael Curtiz' broad-brushed management of a scene in which the entire cast of 1918-5 Yip Yip Yap hank, on the closing night, marches from the stage through the audience to their France-bound transport. This scene, almost as good as similar tearjerkers in Cavalcade, is new with the film version...
...Yap hank, "A great show by a great bunch. There's no theatrical manager who wouldn't grab it without the uniforms." Private Earl Carroll made half of a recruiting act which played Manhattan vaudeville theaters. Federal officers seized copies of the song It'll Be a Hot Time for the Old Boys when the Young Men go to War. Notable entertainers who volunteered to go overseas were John Drew, Billie Burke, Jane Cowl. Lillian Russell, Walter Damrosch. Maude Adams...