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...land in the western Pacific, said Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher last week, when he returned to California for a 30-day leave. Gnomish "Pete" Mitscher, dried and puckered by wind and sun, brought back the staff which had helped him plan and execute a historic cleanup of Jap ships, planes and fighting men. In nine months (Jan. 29 to Oct. 27), his fast carrier task forces of the Pacific Fleet - operating part of the time as Task Force...
Part of this achievement was in the resounding Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, just ended, in which Mitscher-men had shared with battleships, cruisers, destroyers and PT boats the additional credit for: ¶ Sinking 24 Jap warships (two battle ships, four carriers, nine cruisers, three flotilla leaders, six destroyers) ; ¶ Damaging 34 to 37 (seven battleships, ten to 13 cruisers, 17 destroyers...
...Airman Mitscher was sure that the war in the western Pacific would not stop, and as he spoke, the jittery Japs got proof: four-engined bombers which they identified as B-29 Superfortresses droned in ones & twos over the Tokyo area. They dropped no bombs, and eventually the Japs figured it out: the big planes were on reconnaissance, looking-among other things-for crippled Jap ships in Yokosuka navy yard, where they might have fled from Mitscher's flyers a week earlier...
Then Irving's soldiers hit strong Jap defenses on the road to Pinamopoan. The 24th took heavy casualties in a 50-ft. by 400-ft. defile, finally forced its way past Pinamopoan toward Ormoc. Veteran 7th Division troops advanced from the south toward Ormoc, where the Japs probably would make their last stand...
...Force. Somehow dodging air observation, the Jap landed his reinforcements in four transports at Ormoc, at the south end of the hammerhead of Leyte. Two transports were sunk by P-38 and P-40 fighter-bombers, but only after they had been unloaded. By that time fresh Jap tanks and trucks were moving up the highway from Ormoc to the front. It was still true that the battle for Leyte had been decided, but its length and its total cost were yet to be counted. Nobody believed that the Japs would fail to run true to Bushido form, fight...