POSITION ON LEYTE
QUICK CAPTURE OF CARIGARA EXPECTED WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. * American troops are expected to crack the Carigara defences with overwhelming force, and a quick capture is regarded as almost certain, reports the ' New York Times ' correspondent on Leyte, Mr Frank Kluckhorn. Meanwhile, the Japanese are possibly staging planes southwards to Formosa and the Philippines area from points as far north as Manchuria, in an attempt to smash from the air further American moves northwards. With their fleet crippled as the result of the three Philippines battles, the Japanese will depend principally on planes to break up our convoys when we move again, but their air strength at Leyte 13 days after the American landing is still confined to feeble, though persistent, sneak raids
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Evening Star, Issue 25323, 3 November 1944, Page 3
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125POSITION ON LEYTE Evening Star, Issue 25323, 3 November 1944, Page 3
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