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...unable to return to their bases always knew where a crash landing or a parachute jump could be made with some hope. Float planes were used where submarines could not go-as in the Truk lagoon early last year, when seven pilots were taxied out by one plane. In Ormoc Bay last year five PBY Dumbos saved 142 men from a torpedoed destroyer, 56 of them in one plane. It took a three-mile run before getting...
...paratroop attacks with the stern words: "The best goddam way for a Jap to commit suicide is to land near a cavalry unit or otherwise horse around with a cavalry unit." The outfit seized Tacloban, later fought next to the veteran 32nd ("Red Arrow") in the bloody, muddy Ormoc pincers operation...
...then the 32nd and the dismounted 1st Cavalry Division had driven south in the Ormoc corridor; the Texas cavalrymen had joined with the 7th and 77th Divisions. All the Japs east of the corridor were cut off, and although some would filter back to the northwestern peninsula, they would have little hope of survival or escape. For the 77th turned west and soon brought Palompon, the Japs' last port of exit, under its guns...
...airfields were being built on the western, drier side of the island, and captured fields were swiftly repaired and improved for Allied use. One at Valencia, in the Ormoc corridor, was put to use the day after capture. Now it could be told that airfields built at Burauen and Dagami on the wet, eastern slope had been abandoned after a month of struggle against rain and mud. It was because of this setback that the Japs had enjoyed temporary superiority over Allied land-based air forces, and the U.S. Third Fleet had to be held off the islands to make...
This month her valiant career ended. The Navy announced that in supporting the landings at Ormoc Dec. 7, the converted destroyer-transport Ward, commanded by Lieut. Richard E. Farwell, was struck by aerial torpedoes along with the 1,450-ton destroyer Mohan, had to be abandoned and sunk. They were the 48th and 49th U.S. destroyers lost in World...