Word: mindanao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Japs bombed the Philippines, Laubach was visiting the U.S. after 25 years of missionary and literacy work on the Philippine island of Mindanao, in India, Africa, the Near East. He armed himself with a letter from Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, took on the 90,000,000 illiterates of Latin America, from October 1942 to May 1943 barnstormed over 20,000 miles of that area...
...Frank Kurtz and his crew the war was a succession of airfields from which they flew until they were lost. There was Del Monte on Mindanao, "a pretty turf field right up against the big pineapple cannery." They used it first as a base, then, as the Japs drew closer, as a place to load bombs and gas on missions flown from Australia, "touching it as lightly as you would a hot stove." They flew 18 hours a day, with minutes of cat naps in between, until they were sent down to Java...
...Moro," said Jack Pershing, after fighting in the Philippines, "can lick his own weight in wildcats." Moro fighting men on the island of Mindanao last week carried out two of the wildest and most feline raids of the war. They sneaked on cat feet into a Japanese supply base near Digos, a port on the Gulf of Davao, and burned warehouses containing "large stocks of food, gasoline, ammunition and other military supplies." Near Zamboanga they crept in camouflaged force toward one side of the town, made as much noise as Kilkenny cats on the other, then rushed against the rear...
...south, on the big island of Mindanao, where the Jap had grabbed the fine port of Davao, other U.S. soldiers, fierce Moro scouts under American officers, swooped down on a Jap force near storied Zamboanga and gave the invader fits. This was not surprising. The U.S. still controls all of the island except its southern edge...
...Department's Philippine communiqués had a pleasant, unchanging sameness. U.S. scouting units continued to harass enemy communications. A Japanese cruiser fired several shells into the port of Cebu, but the slight damage inflicted hardly made the effort worthwhile. Another Jap division was landed at Mindanao, south of Luzon. Somehow-the means were not disclosed-a 3,000-ton enemy tanker was sunk. Otherwise, all was quiet in the Philippines...