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Checking up later, U.S. officers found four more Japanese troop carriers crashed near the airstrip with some 70 occupants dead, and estimated that the original Giretsu attack had included up to twelve plane loads. Apparently the "unsurpassed loyalists" hoped to wreck the airfield, then filter into U.S. lines for sabotage...
...paratroopers long before dawn, flung himself out of the plane door at such low altitude that "there was only a moment to look around in the moonlight as my chute opened. I landed in a pear tree, which was a good shock absorber, but I didn't filter through to the ground; instead I dangled helplessly about three feet above ground, a perfect target for the snipers I could hear not far away...
...attacks. A bomb hit a house used as an aid station. In it were more than 100 wounded. The house flamed into a furnace before more than a few of the wounded could be carried out. But there was vengeance on the perimeter: the wily paratroops let German tanks filter through to ambush by the tank destroyers. The day's score in tanks...
...American Cyanamid & Chemical Corp.: a chemical filter which converts ordinary water into "distilled" water in double-quick time. Besides its many industrial uses, it offers an easy way to prepare water for storage batteries...
...then the 32nd and the dismounted 1st Cavalry Division had driven south in the Ormoc corridor; the Texas cavalrymen had joined with the 7th and 77th Divisions. All the Japs east of the corridor were cut off, and although some would filter back to the northwestern peninsula, they would have little hope of survival or escape. For the 77th turned west and soon brought Palompon, the Japs' last port of exit, under its guns...