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...week's beginning, the aerial offensive was in full swing. Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Forces were bombing Jap airfields on Luzon, most notably the system of strips and dispersal areas around Clark Field, 50 miles north west of Manila. Army Liberators, Mitchells, Havocs and Warhawks met little opposition in the air. Not since Dec. 28 had the Japs sent up a major intercepting force. Now, relying on ack-ack for defense, they hoarded what planes they could for the crisis they foresaw. The U.S. planes ranged as far as Lingayen Gulf, sinking...
...American mainland. For the first time, they roared up & down the China coast. If a landing in China was, as Fleet Admiral Nimitz said, "still an objective," then last week's forays by Vice Admiral John S. McCain's fast carrier task force showed that the aerial umbrella to cover it was already available...
...planes came down from Luzon to pock the airfields around San Jose; night after night U.S. ack-ack and Black Widow night fighters took a heavy toll. Day after day U.S. bombers roared over enemy-occupied bases on Luzon, destroying 144 planes in three days. It was an aerial war of attrition, before the next push could begin...
This month her valiant career ended. The Navy announced that in supporting the landings at Ormoc Dec. 7, the converted destroyer-transport Ward, commanded by Lieut. Richard E. Farwell, was struck by aerial torpedoes along with the 1,450-ton destroyer Mohan, had to be abandoned and sunk. They were the 48th and 49th U.S. destroyers lost in World...
...that side of the International Date Line when the last phase of Walter Krueger's plan was sprung: a new amphibious attack. It was sprung just in time. General Tomoyuki Yamashita had a plan too : to break the U.S hold on Leyte by aerial landings on U.S. airfields and to run in a convoy of reinforcements to Ormoc. Yamashita's convoy did not make it! Krueger...