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With MacArthur's help, Annalee Jacoby made a hairbreadth escape from the Philippines. In bright moonlight the boat slipped through the minefields, past the Cavite shoreline where Jap artillery blazed. Beyond the bay she and her companions laid a tricky course to freedom-moved only by night, holed up during the day. ("There was always a tight feeling in our stomachs, and we sat on deck with our legs and arms crossed as well as our fingers".) She "filed her nails over and over again", twice almost to the quick-once when eight Jap warships steamed parallel to their...
...24th hung on, moved slowly forward, watching for the Jap counterblow. Presumably MacArthur's reserves were ready when it should fall. It was a lot different from the way hopeful U.S. soldiers had imagined it after the U.S. steam roller successes in the first week of the invasion. The enemy intended to dispute possession of Leyte; hard fighting was ahead...
...Main Chance. As it must to all admirals in battle, the chance came to "Bull" Halsey at a moment when the big decision had to be made quickly and followed fearlessly. At that point the southernmost of the Jap's three prongs was thrusting east through Philippine waters toward Surigao Strait, south of the Leyte beachhead, while another was in a position to attack the beachhead from the north...
...then that Bull Halsey got news that a fast Jap carrier task force was steaming down along the eastern coast of Luzon, and that was Halsey's meat...
...Halsey made his decision: to pull out the Third Fleet, whip north and destroy the carriers. That was what he did, swiftly and without hesitation. But the enemy still had a play up his sleeve. As Halsey turned north to battle, the center task force of the Japs reversed course and headed out again from the inner waters toward San Bernardino Strait. Seemingly the change was not detected by U.S. reconnaissance. By the time Halsey's aircraft and ships had smashed the Jap carrier group off Luzon, the San Bernardino Strait force had burst out into the open...