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...Langson (pop. 7,400), only eleven miles south of the China border. Quickly the soldiers slipped out of their chute harness, jogged through town, and headed for the deep limestone caves where the rebel armies of Ho Chi Minh had cached war materiel. Taken by surprise, the Viet Minh garrison fled. Systematically, the French set to work destroying enough Communist supplies to equip two Red divisions. In twelve busy hours, paratroopers burned 20,000 liters of gasoline, set off 5,000 tons of ammunition and explosives. They seized 200 machine guns and automatic rifles, 1,000 light machine guns...
...February 1945, as the U.S. Sixth and Eighth Armies closed in on Manila from north, east and south, the Japanese garrison went berserk, killing 40,000 Filipinos in a 20-day orgy. Among those machine-gunned to death in the streets: the wife and three of the children of the man who is now President of the Philippine Republic, Elpidio Quirino. After the war, the Philippine government condemned 79 Japanese to death and 48 more to long prison terms, for these and hundreds of other atrocities. Charged with "command responsibility" for the rape of Manila, Lieut. General Shizuo Yokoyama...
...belonged to the aces. Back in harness was Major James Jabara, who became the first jet ace in 1951, to shoot down his 13th and 14th MIGs. Colonel James Johnson, 37-year-old commander of the Fourth Fighter-Interceptor Wing, destroyed his tenth. Another oldster, Lieut. Colonel Vermont Garrison, 37, who shot down eleven Nazi planes in World War II, got his ninth MIG the same day. Among the younger aces who added to their scores was Captain Ralph Parr, 28, who flew 165 fighter-bomber missions on his first Korean tour in 1951. Said Parr after destroying his seventh...
Double Role. In Los Angeles, visiting city court. Patrolman Paul B. Le Page spotted a familiar face, collared Juror Garrison Harris, whose own trial for grand theft was scheduled for the following week...
Peeling off in a split S, the four Sabres screamed into a dive. Flight Leader Major Vermont Garrison, 37-year-old World War II ace who is known as "the greying eagle," leveled out at 2,000 ft. on the tail of a MIG. After a quick burst from the Sabre's .50-cal. machine guns, the Red plane exploded. A few minutes later, Garrison downed another MIG. Captain Lonnie Moore, 32, drew a bead on a third MIG and brought it down; ist Lieut. Harry Jones Jr., 23, got another. Then at 1,500 ft., Wingman William...