Word: ormoc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Douglas MacArthur's campaign on Leyte had settled down to a bruising struggle for the Ormoc valley in the island's northwest tip. There some 25,000 Japanese troops were dug in, and they showed not the slightest sign of giving...
...impressed by the weakness of the Japanese artillery and the failure of the enemy to employ mines with anything like the diabolical thoroughness of Kesselring's Army in Italy. The 1st Imperials have perhaps four .75s on the Ormoc road. Their fire has been woefully ineffective except against an easy point-blank target. . . . You can drive right up to the front without drawing a storm of artillery or getting blown skyhigh by mines...
...last week a 70-m.p.h. typhoon hit Leyte briefly and rain fell to mire the jungles nearly all week. Such weather inevitably favored the defenders. The U.S. drive on land slowed down to a walk after it had overrun about 50% of the northern half of Leyte. Ormoc, the key western port where the Japs landed and deployed in a ten-mile semicircle, could be approached only from the north or the south unless the U.S. troops attempted to come over the mountains between Dagami and Jaro-a stony, difficult path...
...Over Ormoc on Leyte, icy-eyed Major Richard I. Bong knocked down two more Japanese fighters, ran his score to 36. ¶ Flying from his carrier, the Navy's top man, Commander David McCampbell, got two more over Manila, ran his score to 32. ¶Near Cebu, Major Thomas B. McGuire, the Army's No. 2 ace in the Pacific, bagged two Jap fighter bombers, ran his score...
...Force. Somehow dodging air observation, the Jap landed his reinforcements in four transports at Ormoc, at the south end of the hammerhead of Leyte. Two transports were sunk by P-38 and P-40 fighter-bombers, but only after they had been unloaded. By that time fresh Jap tanks and trucks were moving up the highway from Ormoc to the front. It was still true that the battle for Leyte had been decided, but its length and its total cost were yet to be counted. Nobody believed that the Japs would fail to run true to Bushido form, fight...