Show NAMES REMEMBERED Jungle Is Creeping BackOn Back BackOn On H War Sites Guadalcanal Hollandia Manus Tarawa I Iwo wo Jima Okinawa Okinawa all all were but spots on a map of the Pacific Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- a scale large-scale chart at t that hat until American soldiers sailors and marines battled and bled there on their long march to victory in World I War Var II By dint of sheer manpower many I of them became b ses hacked out of the wilderness of the jungle I Now only a year after the war warI clouds have cleared many of them I are arc creeping back to their jungle vastness Guadalcanal site of Americas America's first major land stand against the Jap Invaders has slipped back Into obscurity British civil officials once more rule the Solomon Island bastion bastion bas bas- t tion ion and tar tamed Henderson Field Fields I is s quiet except for an occasional plane Airfield Disappears The remorseless jungle Is recon recon- the big airfield hacked out by the Americans at Buna New Guinea Few signs of conflict remain on battle scarred Developed as a major base basc InclosIng inclosing In Inclosing closing days das of the war var it also served as an advance base for forthe forthe forthe the bomb atomic-bomb tests At Tarawa one of the costliest battlefields of the Pacific a small I navy garrison maintains the air airbase airbase base but it may be decommissioned soon The name Leyte where Gen Douglas Mac MacArthur Arthur kept his pledge to return to the Philippines is kept alive by the navy which maintains a major base there The bay teems with activity an airfield air depot hospital radio station and naval repair repair repair re re- re- re pair yards being located there Manila Is Shambles Manila most dramatic battleground battleground battle battle- ground of the war still is in shabby ruins Army trucks and jeeps wind through the streets past heaps of rubble cleared from the thoroughfares thoroughfares thorough thorough- thoroughfares fares and gaunt frames of once- once beautiful buildings Tourists gaze In awe at the maze of rubble In the Walled City historic Waves lap the wrecked and rusting landing craft which litter litter lit- lit ter the shoreline at Iwo Jima a volcanic stepping stone in the march to Tokyo Toko The American flag nag still flutters from Mount for or a small garrison garri son maintains a relatively unImportant unimportant unimportant un un- important air base on Iwo In less than two years Guam has become the most powerful navy base in the distant Pacific Of all the Pacific Mid-Pacific bases it alone I r I I POPULAR PASTIME IE Most lost popular diversion for sailors in the Pacific was the hula show has taken on an In air of permanency Okinawa at Japans Japan's southern souther n threshold still lives In much of th the e misery that war left Army ai air r forces and navy bases are arc maintained maintained main main- tamed on the island Naha capital capita l city Is a wilderness of destruction and sunken ships stud Buckner bay |