Word: formosae
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...Ticonderoga planes helped litter Manila harbor with sunken Jap ships. In December, when I was aboard, the Third Fleet mostly ran into foul weather, but the carrier planes, including those from the Ticonderoga, left about 450 Jap planes wrecked on the air fields of Luzon, and others on Formosa, according to Halsey's reports...
January 21 was partially overcast and we were southeast of Formosa. On the Essex we were eating noon chow. At 12:09 the 5-inch guns opened up, and the bell clanged for general quarters. Everybody rushed topside. The Ticonderoga was bil lowing black smoke 300 feet high. Seven planes had sneaked through. Six were shot down but the seventh crashed through the Ti's flight deck. She was badly...
Initial Gains. Buckner's first target turned out to be Okinawa, central and largest island in the Ryukyu chain stretching from Japan to Formosa. There Admiral Nimitz mounted an amphibious operation, surpassed only by those of Sicily and Normandy, to hurl the troops ashore. And by week's end Buckner knew that his Tenth had caught the Japanese by surprise and had scored a smashing initial success...
Northward in the Ryukyus, the ladder of islands stretching from Formosa to Japan, steamed Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth Fleet, working in small units, striking here, there, everywhere. In the southern Ryukyus the British Pacific Fleet, working with U.S. Pacific forces for the first time, struck at the Sakishima island group...
...attack narrowed down to the main objective: poverty-stricken, malaria-ridden, snake-infested Okinawa, largest and staunchest rung in the Ryukyu ladder. Once firmly established on Okinawa, Americans could climb up the 370 miles to Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island, or climb down 365 miles to Formosa, potential springboard for landings in China...