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Luzon was the objective. Every move by General MacArthur's forces pointed toward the main, northernmost island of the Philippines, site of its historic capital and scene of the bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor...
Their third, northernmost force, which included four of their precious, dwindling stock of flattops, would send off planes to smear Admiral Mitscher's bare-decked carriers when the latters planes were far away, giving Kinkaid support which the Japs' were confident he would need and demand...
...complicated battle thundered on. That same afternoon, a land-based search plane spotted the Japs' northernmost force: four carriers, two battleships (of the Ise class, with flight decks aft), five cruisers and six destroyers...
While Govorov's army was wringing the last of the Nazis out of the northernmost of the Baltic States, the Second and Third Baltic Armies, directly to the south, drove through Latvia to squeeze the Germans against the Gulf of Riga. To close the trap, the First Baltic Army swung north to take Riga at the bottom of the Gulf...
Half a Load. The major secondary target for planes which for any reason had to pass up Anshan was Tangku, the port of Tientsin in northernmost China. The Monsoon was past Tangku on the way home when it was discovered that half her bomb load had stuck in the bay. A target of last resort had been specified: the airfield at Chenghsien. The nearby railway junction had already been bombed by a diversionary force of B-29s. The Monsoon knocked out the airfield control tower with its leftovers and breezed back to base...