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Ambush. The Japs' southernmost fleet suffered least from U.S. aerial pounding during its approach, and reached the scene of battle first. The first-quarter moon had set early, and the morning darkness was deep in Surigao Strait. At the southern end, squadrons of PT boats lay in ambush. As the Huso and Yamasiro entered the narrows with their screen, the PTs attacked. The tiny, bucking craft had made their reputation for dash and expendability in the Philippines, and they lived up to it. They scored some hits, lost several of their number...
...Australia from Panay, Douglas MacArthur had been supplying the rebels by submarine. Last week the guerrilla chief on Leyte and Samar, lithe, impassive Colonel Ruperto Kangleon claimed that his men had killed 3,800 Japs in the past year. Kangleon's chief of staff was a U.S PT-boat officer who missed the last Fortress out of Mindanao -one of many U.S. soldiers and sailors in the island who never surrendered...
...captain's cabin of the 77-ft. PT-41 he lay on the tiny bunk, beaten, burning with defeat. Corregidor was doomed and with it the Philippines, but one leading actor in the most poignant tragedy in U.S. military history would be missing when the curtain fell. Douglas MacArthur, Field Marshal of the Philippine Army, four-star General in the U.S. Army, had left the stage. It was the order of his Commander in Chief...
They could travel only by night; by day Jap aircraft ruled the skies and they had to skulk in coves. At last the PT put in at Mindanao; a battered Flying Fortress took the MacArthurs on to Australia...
...certain PT squadron commander had managed to capture a Jap naval officer after sinking a fleet of Barges which the Nipponese commanded. The U. S. officer questioned his captive on all sorts of routine matters, such as where he was bound for and where he came from...