The ringing of the telephone awakened Douglas MacArthur just after 3:30 a.m. in his air-conditioned six-room penthouse atop the Manila Hotel.
Down but Not Out
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Air Boss: Major General Maggie Woodward
Darting around a windowless command center in southwestern Germany, Maggie Woodward flashed orders to pilots and skippers from the Great Plains to the Dolomites. She scrambled U.S.
Hitting the Source U.S. Bombers Strike At
The blow, when it finally fell, was unexpectedly jarring.
The Invasion: This is It
The world got the shock it had been waiting for. But to the U.S
How the Jakarta Bombers Slipped Through Hotel Security
He is a politician for whom the adjective “cautious” seems tailor-made. But in the aftermath of the July 17 bombing of two luxury hotels in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono showed a new face to his nation