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...more successful night attack the Japs sneaked nine bombers in over the important air base of Morotai, south of the Philippines. U.S. officers admitted casualties and damages; the enemy ebulliently claimed 74 planes burned on the ground...
Nothing south of the Philippines would do for the attack: Lieut. General Kenney's airmen based on Morotai had closed those routes. There were only two channels through the Philippines. The Japs bent their strategy to geographic necessity...
...Veterans. They added Ulithi, Min danao, Morotai, Halmahera and Manila to their battles and scores of enemy planes to their tally. They fought now with confidence born of experience, shepherded the bombers with cool, cocky precision...
...baby daughter he had never seen, Earling Zaeske of his new son. They also thought of the baby daughter Demarest Lloyd had never seen and never would. Said the squadron diary: "Bernie McLaughlin landed from combat air patrol and announced that he had figured it out over Morotai that there are 84 shopping days to Christmas...
With the occupation of Morotai and the strategic end of the New Guinea campaign, the U.S. presumably has two more major jungle campaigns before Japan is beaten : the Philippines and the cleanup in Burma. But after two and a half years of jungle fighting, U.S. jungle equipment is still far from perfect...