Word: ormoc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prewar tours of duty, he had inspected countless islands, memorizing tactical details. His sketch maps, from memory, of the Ormoc valley on Leyte were better than anything previously available...
...night was undisturbed, except for an alarm touched off by two U.S. landing craft, homeward-bound from the Ormoc beachhead. The next morning, too, was so calm that U.S. Navymen began to smell trouble. At 3 p.m., they sighted it-enemy planes...
When it sloshed ashore fortnight ago on the west coast of Leyte, Major General Andrew Bruce's 77th Division caught the Japs so far off balance that, before they recovered their poise, the 77th had penetrated Ormoc. But there the Japs stood, and stood fast. Most of last week the 77th used its artillery to blast a group of coconut log and concrete blockhouses 600 yards north of Ormoc on the road to Valencia. The Japs still had artillery and mortars, still had enough infantrymen to make three desperate counterattacks...
Line Drive. Once ashore, the 77th made rapid progress. It overran Camp Downes, and from that plateau rolled downhill with momentum unchecked, entering Ormoc at week's end. The end run had produced a touchdown. The 77th now held the vital position on the west coast of Leyte; the position could serve as an anvil while other U.S. divisions, like hammers, pounded the Japs caught between. To the northeast were the hammers of the ist Cavalry Division (dismounted) and the 32nd Division; to the southeast was the hammer...
Meanwhile, the Japs' convoy of four troop transports, two freighters, four destroyers and three destroyer escorts was lurking in San Isidro Bay, 30 miles short of its destination at Ormoc. U.S. Army and Navy planes spent all day attacking them. By 5:30 p.m. every one had been sunk. The water was covered with oil, dotted with the bobbing heads of enemy soldiers...