Word: davao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japanese war lords viewed with hissing alarm the growing tonnages of high explosive dropped on the line from the Bonins to the Moluccas. Domei's military commentator read the tonnage figures, and concluded sagely that U.S. action against Davao "bears watching." Other Tokyo analysts foresaw huge operations against Formosa and the Bonins, as well as the Philippines, and a diversion from the Aleutians toward northern Japan. The U.S. Navy, patently getting set for its next blow, did nothing to cure the enemy's uncertainty...
...from both west and east by Army bombers in a foretaste of what was to come as new bases, now taken, were built up. For the first time since General MacArthur was evacuated from Mindanao to Australia, U.S. heavy bombers flew over the southern Philippines in force. Davao, principal seaport and military base of the southern Philippines, was attacked for three nights running and on odd nights thereafter by Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Liberators...
Biak has three airfields. It is less than 900 miles from Davao on the southern tip of the Philippines, about 500 miles from Palau, the Jap naval base in the western Carolines...
Second Day. "Just as the sun was rising we flew over the Filipinos' heads on the lines where they were fighting outside Davao. There is just a little old road right on the sea, with big mountains almost down to the water's edge. There were barricades on both sides where the lines stop, maybe half a mile apart. We dropped to 1,000 feet so the Filipinos could see us, so everything was right below us and plain. We could see the trucks and horses on both sides of the lines, and a little forest where...
With his air strength spread thin (see p. 19) and his ground soldiers scattered from hell to breakfast over the southwest Pacific, the Jap's job was a big one-and Filipino troops were making it bigger every day by raiding him from Davao to the beachheads of Panay. If they had air-force help from Australia, they might make the job too big for the Jap to handle...