Word: davao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last Jap holds on the Philippines were being pried loose. On Mindanao last week two U.S. Army divisions were pressing close to Davao. A second landing was made on Negros. Major General Innis P. Swift's I Corps, racing the rainy season that starts in mid-May, stepped up its drive over the razor-backed ridges of northern Luzon and captured Baguio, summertime capital of the islands...
...after four weeks' bitter fighting it had managed to gain 1,000 yards. Thirty-third Division troops fought artillery duels with Japs snugly hidden in caves on mountain slopes. Bit by bit both divisions worked closer to their objectives. On Mindanao the slow cleanup of Zamboanga peninsula continued. Davao, the excellent port and key area of the second largest island, was heavily bombed by the Thirteenth Air Force...
...Leroy ("Tex") Harris, escorting the bombers over Davao Gulf, reported by radio that they had spotted a Jap destroyer. Tex radioed blithely: "Wait about five minutes and I'll tell you where it was-repeat was." Less than five minutes later the bombers had sunk the destroyer...
Liberators and PBYs from General MacArthur's command struck repeatedly at Davao, capital of Mindanao. U.S. carriers, of which more than 50 now roam the Pacific, hammered Halmahera, the Jap island stronghold which MacArthur bypassed in occupying Morotai. Still other carrier planes ranged 325 miles behind Palau to strike the Jap base...
Tokyo Radio last week warned Manila residents to complete their air-raid shelters. Tokyo also announced (at least to the outside world) that Davao, the Philippines' second city, had been evacuated of civilians in anticipation of American landings. There were no landings at Davao last week, but in two other places the U.S. sprang forward again...