Word: subic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only three key points will be kept in full operating status: Hawaii, Guam and Saipan. To reinforce these, four other bases-Adak in the north, Midway in the Central Pacific, Leyte Samar and Subic Bay in the Philippines-will be maintained at reduced strength and capacity...
...taken four months of prodigious labor by bald, burly Commodore William Aloysius Sullivan, the Navy's chief of salvage, and the thousand-odd officers & men of his Manila-Subic Harbor Clearance Group. In clearing approach channels, the slips and the Pasig River (where wrecks lay three deep in spots) they had fished up more than 400 Jap craft, large & small. A few they had beached for salvage; many they had refloated with big air bubbles pumped into the holds, to be hauled away bottoms-up and sunk again...
...Guinea by big, jovial Ike Eichelberger with a staff which started training in Ben Lear's old Second Army, the Eighth went into action as an identified army late in January. The 38th Division and elements of the 24th piled ashore north of Bataan, went on to take Subic Bay and Olongapo. Two days after the first landing the 11th Airborne piled out of boats at Nasugbu and drove to the southern outskirts of Manila in 104 hours. The 511th Regimental Combat Team made the first paratroop drop of the Philippine campaign, landing along the Tagaytay ridge in support...
...Filipinos, soon due to receive their independence, expect to provide the U.S. with bases in exchange for protection, but they are not eager to have Manila turned into another Singapore. Actually, neither Manila Bay nor Subic Bay would be quite satisfactory, because they are on the wrong side of the island, can be entered only from the South China Sea. Leyte Bay would be better, but it is in the heart of the typhoon belt...
...hero came home from Bataan. Lieut. John Duncan Bulkeley, a hero of the Subic Bay sinking of a 5,000-ton Jap supply ship and commander of the PT boat squadron which whisked MacArthur out of the Philippines, arrived in San Francisco last week, and was flown across the continent to New York. People were waiting to see him: his wife, his mother and father, his 19-months-old daughter, whom he had not seen since last August, his five-weeks-old son, whom he had never seen. There also were cheering neighbors, U.S. flags fluttering in the doorway...