Word: ormoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last phase of Walter Krueger's plan was sprung: a new amphibious attack. It was sprung just in time. General Tomoyuki Yamashita had a plan too : to break the U.S hold on Leyte by aerial landings on U.S. airfields and to run in a convoy of reinforcements to Ormoc. Yamashita's convoy did not make it! Krueger...
...beaches, without a casualty. Most of the Japs had been sucked into the interior; the rest had been dazed by the barrage, although this strip of beach which might decide the entire campaign for Leyte was but three miles south of their main port and base at Ormoc...
...fighting was reduced to patrol actions. Off Leyte's western shore, Japanese reinforcement convoys appeared and were attacked by fighter bombers from Sverdrup's new strips. Some were burned and some were sunk. Thousands of Japanese troops on their way to reinforce the stubborn, holdout garrison at Ormoc died. How many thousands, no man knew, although the communiqués offered guesstimates in bold round numbers...
...Leyte fresh infantrymen of the 32nd ("Red Arrow") Division (see ARMY & NAVY) cracked the Japanese strong point at Limon, took the town and neatly pulled the plug at the top of the north-south road along which last-ditch Japanese defenders are strung all the way down to Ormoc...
...hard fights spaced two days apart, one over Manila Bay and one over Ormoc, Commander David McCampbell last week downed two more Jap planes, brought his air-combat total to 34. It was still two shy of Major Richard Bong's top score. But in some respects, the Navy ace's record was more remarkable...