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...preliminaries, Halsey and the Third Fleet had whipped hard carrier strikes at Mindanao and the central Philippines, had twice struck at shipping and shore establishments in Manila Bay itself. Last week the Third Fleet swung north and the pattern became clear...
Running Battle. After the first Manila raids (Sept. 9-10), Bull Halsey, with his hair slicked back and his khaki shirt newly starched, had entertained his staff aboard his flagship at a predated Thanksgiving dinner. For an hour or so, life had seemed calm and leisurely. But there was no leisure or slow movement now. Bull Halsey whipped his forces through the enemy's inner waters with the speed and precision he had first shown long ago as a pint-sized fullback at Annapolis...
Meanwhile, the Halsey-Mitscher forces bored south. From the Philippine Sea, Mitscher sent air groups out for yet other strikes at Aparri and airfields around Manila Bay. The week's total of Jap aircraft destroyed rose...
...when Admiral Mitscher's airmen swept down on Manila Bay to strike the first historic blow in our campaign to free the Philippines, TIME'S Bill Gray was on the job for you there...
...Since Sept. 6 when I left Mitscher's flagship, I have watched the Palau and Philippine operations from five big carriers, five destroyers, one cruiser, one tanker. During the strike at Manila Bay I was on the bridge. Suddenly the squawk-box warned: 'Four Jap planes closing in,' and our ships moved into tight anti-aircraft formation. Through our ear-cotton the flash of guns sounded like a mad symphony on kettle drums. A Jap fighter made two strafing passes at our stern and got away with it, but a minute later I watched him dog-fighting...