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...loaded the planes with big bombs, then slept right in the planes. At dawn we went sailing down the runway heading for Cebu city. At Cebu we made three passes over the target, which was the dock area and shipping. The first time, it just looked like an idle harbor scene - bunches of ships stacked every which way. When we turned around we saw the docks were all afire. On the second pass we hit a transport right amidships. While stuff was still settling around it, she turned over on her side...
...days Cebu's people had taken to the hills every time a ship appeared in the roadstead. After each false, alarm, lean, grey, Lieut. Colonel Howard J. Edmands and his little denim-clad Filipino M.P.s tramped back from the dock areas through the street, jaunty and unafraid with their rifles and their single machine gun. The remains of Cebu's population quieted down, and waited...
Periodically there were mild panics in the Cebu Leprosarium, and once several hundred of the patients escaped and fled to the hills. They knew that the Japs shoot lepers without mercy. Tall, typically Irish Father Francis O'Donnell, their pastor, followed them, assured them that the Lord protects the afflicted, got them to go back to the Leprosarium, where three nuns tend them...
When the Jap struck Cebu, he struck with overwhelming force. One day ten transports and five warships stood off the harbor where the rusty bones of sunken ships thrust above the blue water, and the skeletons of destroyed oil installations lay dead against the background of waving palms...
From their hill positions, Cebu's militia, commanded by genial, unflustered Colonel Irvine C. Scudder, whisked off to beach positions, pecked at the Jap. Somewhere the little M.P.s in their rumpled blue uniforms were fighting him too. But Cebu, only 20 miles wide, vulnerable in every spot to fire from the ships, never had a chance. The Jap was in the Visayan...