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...Japs knew Boyington well: he had taunted them over his radio as he roared in for kills. They gave him special treatment. Last week, after Commander Harold E. Stassen greeted him aboard a U.S. destroyer transport, he told about it: "The first ten days were the hardest. They wouldn't let anybody touch me to help me. Every day they blindfolded me and threw me in a truck to take me into town, then questioned me all day. They would make me walk on my bad leg, and shove me with a rifle butt to make sure...
...General Smiles. General of the Army Douglas Mac Arthur was a different man. As he stepped from his transport plane Bataan his sternly sculptured features relaxed in an easy smile. The austere man who used to forget faces called first names, clasped hands, and complimented the military band. Later he dined with his junior officers; he had not done so since...
...invasion proceeded with machine-like precision. Transport planes floated down on the airstrips at four-minute intervals. U.S. and British battleships, cruisers and destroyers marched in stately file through the treacherous Uraga Channel into Tokyo Bay. It was almost too smooth. Said a dry Britisher, watching Brigadier General William T. Clement and a few marines raise the U.S. flag over Yokosuka's terraced naval base: "Now he'll declare the bazaar open...
After the Army transport had taxied to a halt on Atsugi airfield one day last week, the first man to climb down was a tall, loose-jointed officer with the three stars of a lieutenant general gleaming on his shirt collar. Said the General, grinning...
...Korea (then known as the Hermit Kingdom) in 1882, signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, built the country's first trolley line, rail way and waterworks. The Japanese, after defeating Russia in 1904-05, made Korea their colony and highroad to Manchuria. They gave it modern transport, developed its mines, exploited its farms, opened Shinto shrines...