Word: tuguegarao
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Thirty-five miles behind the front lines a phantom U.S. force sprang on the town of Tuguegarao and, captured a major Japanese airfield. Next day another force appeared 50 miles behind this force, at the end of the Jap retreat line, to nab the final escape port of Aparri and its airfield...
Thus the enemy revealed his intention to defend, as long as life was in him, the natural stronghold of northern Luzon's mountains. This would delay U.S. use of airfields such as Tuguegarao and Aparri; it would keep U.S. ground forces away from Luzon Strait indefinitely, unless fresh landings were made...
...away clean. A week later Bulkeley returned, this time in a torpedo boat commanded by Ensign George Cox, to knock off another 5,000-tonner. Meanwhile more than 200 miles north of Manila a band of Philippine guerrillas burst from the hills and slashed at a Jap airdrome at Tuguegarao on Northern Luzon. They reported (presumably by radio to Corregidor) that they had killed no Japs, routed 300 more...
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