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...still greater strikes which would be needed when the battle of Luzon was fully joined. And it was essential that existing fields on Mindoro be fully protected against Jap counterattack, whether by land, sea or air. So convoys were formed up at Leyte and dispatched through the Mindanao Sea, with air cover provided by accompanying escort carriers...
Last week, a big U.S. convoy (the Jap said 30 transports and 20 escorting cruisers and destroyers) ploughed through three days of enemy air attacks in the Mindanao and Sulu Seas. At first the jittery Japs feared it might be headed for Luzon, but the convoy put in at Mindoro. The buildup was proceeding along with the attrition. Soon enough Luzon would be the target for other convoys...
Your Oct. 9 Pacific pony edition was the first first-class mail I received in the Philip-pinesr Congratulations. This particular issue, I found, also suggested an invasion of the 6 TIME, DECEMBER 18, 1944 central Philippines instead of Mindanao. You were certainly well informed...
...Where are we?" Telker asked, and an old Filipino answered, "Mindanao." He had inadvertently invaded the largest island in the southern Philippines, still exclusively and thickly Jap-held. Telker suggested to his party that they abandon the beachhead forthwith. They agreed...
Exploitation. General MacArthur and his Sixth Army commander, Lieut. General Walter Krueger, had chosen Leyte as their target because its capture would seal off Mindanao and the other southern and central Philippine Islands, furnish bases for U.S. planes to cut Japan's supply lines to the East Indies storehouses. Then they had picked for the main assault the spot on Leyte where their armor and fire power could be used most advantageously: the upper half of the eastern shore line which leads down into the fertile Leyte Valley...