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...charge of two LCMs (landing craft, mechanized), Telker had set out on a routine job of ferrying caterpillar tractors from Leyte to nearby Samar. He was puzzled when Jap planes strafed his craft, dumfounded when, after putting ashore in a small cove to reconnoiter, he was welcomed by jubilant Filipinos uttering flowery phrases...
...Where are we?" Telker asked, and an old Filipino answered, "Mindanao." He had inadvertently invaded the largest island in the southern Philippines, still exclusively and thickly Jap-held. Telker suggested to his party that they abandon the beachhead forthwith. They agreed...
...attempted breakout from their pocket in northwestern Leyte, the enemy dropped parachutists from a score of planes (twin-engined transports resembling the DC-3) in the area west of Dulag, and especially around Burauen airfield. U.S. antiaircraft destroyed some of the planes, but about 200 paratroopers landed. Under Jap uniforms, some wore civilian clothes...
Seismographs around the world recorded the shocks as possibly far more severe than those of 1923, when the U.S. sent quick aid to devastated Yokohama and Tokyo. Perhaps because single B-29s from Saipan kept droning over, photographing the results of the latest disaster, Jap broadcasters belatedly conceded that "the quake was severe," although they asserted that "the inhabitants of central Japan enjoyed sitting on Mother Earth's cradle...
...Jap war production officials and Jap Navymen, whose yards were choked with ships under repair, Mother Earth was singing no lullaby. It was admitted that homes and buildings in the Tokyo-Yokohama region were ruined by landslides, that factories along the 250-mile coastal strip from Tokyo to Osaka were damaged...