Word: setbacks
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When it met for the first time last week, nobody called the 79th a "Victory Congress." That bumptious phrase was tacked to the 78th, which had hoped to help write the peace, had watched Germany's stubborn legions postpone the day of victory. This setback had also changed the outlook for the 79th, which had anticipated in November's piping days that its main tasks would be to organize the peace and to legislate the U.S. back to a peacetime economy. Now the first job was an old job: get on with...
Last week the eyes of the U.S. turned with fear and questioning on Eisenhower as he faced the gravest setback of his career. The invasion was his first great responsibility; this his second. But Eisenhower refused to admit that a battle was lost while it was still being fought. He proclaimed to his troops...
...Valencia, in the Ormoc corridor, was put to use the day after capture. Now it could be told that airfields built at Burauen and Dagami on the wet, eastern slope had been abandoned after a month of struggle against rain and mud. It was because of this setback that the Japs had enjoyed temporary superiority over Allied land-based air forces, and the U.S. Third Fleet had to be held off the islands to make up the deficit...
Last week Father Johnson drove into Vanceburg in his threadbare overalls, mule whip over his shoulder, determined to get his rights. He got a setback from the school superintendent, who told him he had not thought he would ever see a Lewis County man afraid to fight a wildcat. Father Johnson admitted the cateymount had him purely frightened. "I've never been afeard of man ner beast," he said, "but when that old cateymount yowls near our house it just makes my hair stand plumb straight up on my head." The old man hoped the authorities would bring...
...most decisive Pacific battle since Midway, where the Japs had and lost the chance to change the course of the war. What-might-have-been in the Philippine Sea, i.e., the destruction of MacArthur's shipping, might have been a serious, but probably not a decisive Setback. What-was turned out to be a bright page in history. To Navymen, and particularly naval airmen, black-browed, husky Bull Halsey was more than ever one of the sea's immortals...