MANILA RAIDERS
SEVERE BUFFETING FORTY PILOTS DOWN NEARLY ALL PICKED UP NEW YORK, Dec. 5. The Mutual Broadcasting System’s correspondent says that during the recent combined air and navel attack against Manila Admiral Halsey's Thud Fleet encountered a terrible and sudden storm. Several squadrons of the carrier fleet were in the air. The final tabulations showed that 40 pilots were missing. In a characteristic decision Admiral Halsey immediately cancelled the Manila strike next morning and ordered a vast fleet to comb the waters with all ships and every available plane, with the result that he saved all the pilots except two. whereupon Admiral Halsey directed the Manila strike to be resumed.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21582, 8 December 1944, Page 6
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