Word: davao
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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...
...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...