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Leyte was declared secure. Now the job in the Philippines was to build up Allied forces, especially in the advanced outpost of Mindoro, for the big push on Luzon. The Japs knew it, and reacted in familiar fashion: they sent down a task force of surface ships to blast the soft-shelled beachhead with heavy guns...
...late afternoon when the enemy task force was sighted, steaming in from the South China Sea, by a Navy search Liberator piloted by Lieut. P. F. Stevens of Joplin, Mo. Stevens reported his find: a battleship, a cruiser and six destroyers. Then he made a beeline back to Mindoro, gassed up and had his plane armed with four 500-lb. bombs. While other strikes were being set up, he flew back to the Jap task force's course, picked out the battleship as his target. A low-level run with his flying boxcar in the face of concentrated...
Five days after the landings on Mindoro, U.S. fighter planes in the Philippines briskly turned their main attention to knocking out Japanese air power on the far richer target of Luzon. Joining in the fun, as usual, were the "Forty-niners," men of the Fifth Air Force's famed 49th Fighter Group, first expeditionary unit of the Army Air Forces to go overseas...
...Leyte, to base there. They could boast of having bred most of the Southwest Pacific's fighter aces, including eleven currently in action. Their biggest continuing source of pride is Major Bong, now a roving gunnery instructor who occasionally roves with his old buddies. On a sweep over Mindoro last week, Dick Bong bagged his second Jap fighter in a week, ran his score...
...troops pushed quickly inland. The firm, dry soil made Mindoro seem like heaven after the mud of Leyte. Within three days they were eleven miles inland and had seized San Jose and its airdromes, while U.S. and Aussie engineers began work on other airfields. On Mindoro's flats and in its valleys there was room, and need, for plenty of them...