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...great island of Luzon (41,000 sq. mi., pop. four million) was the epicenter of a man-made earthquake which rocked the whole Japanese Empire last week. Off Luzon's western coast, the Jap radio screamed, were vast U.S. convoys whose guardian warships were blasting the defenses in Lingayen Gulf, 100 miles north of Manila. The Japs said troops were landing. General MacArthur's return to the Philippines, begun at Leyte last Oct. 20, might be nearing its crowning achievement. Among the smaller Philippine islands to the south, landings had been made to consolidate the hold...
...Superfortress route between Saipan and Tokyo were hornets' nests of Jap fighters and bombers: a surface task force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet steamed in and battered these airfields and harbor facilities in the Bonin Islands with big guns. The Third Fleet's carrier planes hammered Okinawa and Formosa...
...power on a line from Japan through the Ryukyu Islands to the Formosa Strait - bottleneck in enemy communications to points south, notably the Philippines. His planes harried air fields on either side of the 95-mile passage, on Formosa and in China, to prevent reinforcement of the battered Jap air fleets on Luzon, and to keep Formosa-based aircraft from attacking U.S. ships off Luzon...
...east of their targets. His chief of staff, Rear Admiral Wilder Du Puy Baker, is a grandfather, but McCain addressed him as "Son." He addressed everybody on the flag bridge as "Son." One of them was Commander John S. ("Jimmy") Thach, inventor of the Navy fighter plane technique for Jap-killing, known as the "Thach weave...
...week's end, the U.S. fliers' score for two days was fat: in Jap planes destroyed, 220 damaged; 25 ships sunk, 58 damaged. By this time McCain had hauled off to the south. He was off Luzon, in the Philippines, looking for trouble. But Jap air power on Luzon was already thinned out; on the first day, only 41 enemy planes could be found and wrecked...