Word: legaspi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elsewhere the campaign went faster. On Luzon's long southeastern tail, elements of Major General Oscar W. Griswold's XIV Corps, spearheaded by Brig. General Hanford MacNider, landed to capture Legaspi and its airfield. Battle-seasoned doughs of Major General William H. Arnold's Americal Division, with Rear Admiral Russell Berkey's group of Seventh Fleet warships blasting the way for them, stormed ashore on Cebu. Midget submarines, attempting to interfere with the landings, were driven off. The Americals captured Cebu city, second largest in the Philippines (peacetime pop. 145,000) with its fine port...
...achieved command of the air by the end of the war's second week. Close to his air bases, he had poured inferior aircraft south to Luzon, and by numbers taken a toll of better U.S. planes. He had also established three Luzon beachheads, apparently with airdromes: at Legaspi, Aparri, Vigan. Then he opened the battle's second phase...
Therefore canny Douglas MacArthur had committed only a small part of his force to battle on the big island of Luzon. The battles at Legaspi, Aparri and Vigan, where the Japanese had set up beachheads, had been predominantly Air Force shows. The Japanese had grabbed these beachheads apparently to set up airdromes, and they had succeeded, though with heavy losses to men, transports and naval support. General MacArthur still kept a hard core of resistance centered around Manila...