Word: mindanao
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...strike west from the Marianas to Luzon in the northern Philippines, while MacArthur storms Mindanao in the southern Philippines...
Washington speculated that MacArthur's next hop might be 700 miles to Halmahera on the Vogelkop (bird's head) that is New Guinea's western end. From Halma hera to Mindanao, southernmost Philippine island, is 400 miles...
...William George Rolph, visiting in Philadelphia, heard of trouble in the Philippines. He postponed his return to his home in London, joined the U.S. Army, saw action in Panay, then fought the Moros in Mindanao...
...airfields which have accommodated as many as 300 Jap planes at a time, means that MacArthur would gain a base 960 miles southeast of the great Jap base at Palau (whose seizure may be necessary before landings can be made in the Philippines) and 1,200 miles southeast of Mindanao, second-biggest island in the Philippines...
...Japanese Fleet, geography, and the development of modern weapons-particularly aircraft. The Pacific Fleet dares not steam straight across 5,000 miles of ocean through shoals of Japanese submarines, past the airfields in the Marshalls and the Carolines, and attempt to land an invasion force on the shores of Mindanao, in the Philippines. Nor, apparently, does it care to concentrate on MacArthur's Southwest Pacific route. The Navy must secure bases in its rear as it moves. For the Pacific is dotted with unsinkable Jap airplane carriers and sub bases which cannot be left in the rear...