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...Dutch airmen worked well together and with the surface fleet. By concentrating first on Jap planes and naval vessels, the bombers freed Admiral Hart's warships to knock off the transports like so many ducks...
...Navy had its heroes. A swift motor torpedo boat commanded by Lieut. John D. Bulkeley slipped into Subic Bay one night and sank a 5,000-ton Jap ship, got away clean. A week later Bulkeley returned, this time in a torpedo boat commanded by Ensign George Cox, to knock off another 5,000-tonner. Meanwhile more than 200 miles north of Manila a band of Philippine guerrillas burst from the hills and slashed at a Jap airdrome at Tuguegarao on Northern Luzon. They reported (presumably by radio to Corregidor) that they had killed no Japs, routed 300 more...
...said, fortnight ago: "If we can knock [the Axis] out of the war, we can do what we like with Japan afterward...
...Largest crowd at a U.S. prizefight was not the 120,757 that saw the first Dempsey-Tunney world-championship fight in Philadelphia (1926), but the crowd that watched Tony Zale knock out Billy Pryor last summer in Milwaukee. It was a free show put on by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. The attendance...
Anti-aircraft barrages also knock out unwary civilians. The fragments that rain down after a blast range from-steel splinters as small as a fingernail to hunks as big as a fist. They are lethal if they land spang on an unhelmeted head, but usually cause only minor injuries. Out of every hundred civilians struck by anti-aircraft shrapnel in the British Isles, where 750,000 men & women are engaged in anti aircraft defense, only one is killed; flying glass is much more dangerous...