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Donald B. Cole '44-'43, a Navy landing craftofficer, took part in landings at Guam, LeyteIsland, the Lingayen Gulf, the Bataan peninsulaand Okinawa...
MacArthur's first moves were bluffs. His headquarters announced on Dec. 11 that the Filipino 21st Division had beaten off a major Japanese invasion in Lingayen Gulf (JAPANESE FORCES WIPED OUT IN WESTERN LUZON, said a New York Times banner headline). When LIFE's Carl Mydans traveled 120 miles north of Manila to photograph the battlefield, he found only a few Filipino soldiers idling on the peaceful beach. "There's no battle there," he reported to MacArthur's press chief in Manila. The officer pointed to his communique and retorted, "It says so here...
When Japanese transports actually reached Lingayen Gulf at 2 a.m. on Dec. 22, they met almost no resistance. Despite heavy seas, General Masharu Homma got a force of more than 40,000 men ashore and began marching south toward the capital. MacArthur, who had convinced Washington that his still largely imaginary 200,000-man Filipino army could defend the archipelago on its myriad beaches, now appealed desperately for air support from the U.S. Navy. CAN I EXPECT ANYTHING ALONG THAT LINE? he cabled Chief of Staff George Marshall. Learning that he could not, he unhappily issued the order...
...chain of command. By birth and training, Ramos, 58, is a Manila insider. He is the son of Narciso Ramos, a former Foreign Minister, and a cousin of Marcos. The general's younger sister Leticia Ramos Shahani is a Deputy Foreign Minister. Ramos grew up in the town of Lingayen in the northern Ilocos region. After attending the National University in Manila, he enrolled at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, as a limited number of foreigners are permitted to do each year; he graduated in the top 10% of his class. At West Point, Ramos was a member...
...navy trainees--The Lucky Bag, Scuttlebut, Ward Room Topics, Specialist's Corner, Creating a Ripple, and the like--was an irregular bylined feature called "Passing the Buck," Written by the Service News first editor, Robert S. Landau '45, who later was killed in naval action in the invasion of Lingayen Gulf, the Philippines, the column attacked a "back-handed diatribe" in the Boston Herald, demanded resumption of gridiron hostilities with Yale, and said other things which made people wonder whether the Service News was as voiceless as it pretended...