Word: davao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philippines, "can lick his own weight in wildcats." Moro fighting men on the island of Mindanao last week carried out two of the wildest and most feline raids of the war. They sneaked on cat feet into a Japanese supply base near Digos, a port on the Gulf of Davao, and burned warehouses containing "large stocks of food, gasoline, ammunition and other military supplies." Near Zamboanga they crept in camouflaged force toward one side of the town, made as much noise as Kilkenny cats on the other, then rushed against the rear of the "alert" Japanese into the very heart...
...south, on the big island of Mindanao, where the Jap had grabbed the fine port of Davao, other U.S. soldiers, fierce Moro scouts under American officers, swooped down on a Jap force near storied Zamboanga and gave the invader fits. This was not surprising. The U.S. still controls all of the island except its southern edge...
Abacá-90% of it from the Philippines (a lot of it from around Davao, one of the first towns the Japs took)-looks like the banana plant (see cut, p. 63) and belongs to the same family. Bananas may grease the ways for a Victory ship launching, but abacá makes the rope for the world's navies. There has been little abacá since Manila fell, and there will be little if any more till Manila is retaken...
Later in the week U.S. bombers found what was apparently the same battleship at Malalag Bay on the west side of Davao Gulf, gave her the works again. This time she took fire. But the Jap had already moved to the south with most of his force...
...chief base was the broad, well-docked harbor of Davao, 600 miles south of Manila. The U.S. defense force in Davao, a thin little group set there by a penny-wise and pound-foolish nation, never had a chance when the Japanese landed in the second week of the war. Since then the Jap has made Davao his own. Last week a flight of U.S. heavy bombers, probably operating from one of the Dutch bases, dropped in at Davao, saw the Allies' worst fears spelled out in ships off the coast...