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Husky, 54-year-old Major General Roscoe B. Woodruff's 24th Division troops stormed into Davao, capital of Mindanao and last large Philippine city in Japanese hands, after one of the toughest marches in Pacific annals-more than 140 miles in 17 days from the Parang landing beach. They found most of the Japanese army gone, the elaborate defenses abandoned. All the wicked-looking pillboxes had faced seaward-the wrong...
...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...