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...Only Jap unit identified by last week was Lieut. General Shiro Makino's 16th Division. But it was now obvious that Jap strength was far more than a division. Even before Makino's men were reinforced, General MacArthur had counted 12,000 Japs killed, estimated 18,000 wounded. U.S. casualties by last midweek were still low: 3,221 (including 976 killed or missing...
...MacArthur's hastily prepared air strips could accommodate only fighters during the battle's first fortnight, but the fighters were busy. Their task was not only to defend eastern Leyte's installations and supply dumps, but also to work as bombers against Jap airfields on Cebu and Negros. The first job was harder than the second...
...first time since Guadalcanal, the U.S. superiority in the air was seriously challenged-but only spasmodically, usually at night, when ack-ack provided the main U.S. defense. From Cebu and Negros Jap airmen-some of them only four days out of Tokyo-repeatedly bombed and strafed MacArthur's positions...
These raiders could hardly be put in the nuisance class-they blew up an ammunition dump and a merchant ship, caused casualties. Usually the Japs came in small numbers (four was a good average), but they came often. By week's end there had been 70 separate raids. One night the Japs hit several places simultaneously every half hour between 12:30 and dawn. Tokyo's fantastic radio claimed that constant Jap attacks had driven the U.S. "Voice of Freedom" station...
Said the Australian soldier: "It is all very well to say the Japanese in the Solomons and New Guinea are withering on the vine, but they take a bloody lot of withering." Many a "Digger" will swear that the fanatical, agricultural, fecund Jap, cultivating vegetable gardens in inaccessible jungle clearings, not only is waxing fat and happy but is intermarrying with natives to raise a new race of Bushido boys...