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Part the First. So vast was the armada under Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid that it was divided into four: 1) bombardment and fire-support group, under Vice Admiral Jesse Barrett Oldendorf (victor of Surigao Strait); 2) close cover group, under Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey; 3) San Fabian Attack Force, with troops for the northern beachhead, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey; 4) Lingayen Attack Force, with troops for the southern beachhead, under Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson...
Last week the cover was ripped off. Big, fast carriers of Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet, which had been sending air groups to hammer Formosa and Luzon, swung southwest through Luzon Strait from the Philippine Sea to the South China...
These convoys sailed into the Tablas Strait, east of Mindoro, and Mindoro Strait, to the west. They disgorged their troops on undefended beaches, one north of the original landings around San José, the other on the opposite coast. In two days, the western force drove to the north end of Mindoro and took Paluan town against slight resistance...
...that was not the immediate purpose of "Jock" McCain's strikes. He was beating down enemy air power on a line from Japan through the Ryukyu Islands to the Formosa Strait - bottleneck in enemy communications to points south, notably the Philippines. His planes harried air fields on either side of the 95-mile passage, on Formosa and in China, to prevent reinforcement of the battered Jap air fleets on Luzon, and to keep Formosa-based aircraft from attacking U.S. ships off Luzon...
When the protecting rain clouds parted, the force made a feint toward the open sea, in the hope of throwing the Japanese off the trail if any Japs were looking. Then the task force wheeled and squeezed through Surigao Strait, steaming over the drowned hulks of Jap warships sunk in the great October battle...