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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...
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...
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...