The Ypsilanti Daily Press

Five Waves Blast War Industry

(By the Associated Press)

Nearly 100 Superforts swept over the Tokyo-Yokohama area today in five waves blasting Japanese war industries as American infantry men encountered the bitterest opposition of the Philippines campaign-in the streets of Manila, the jungles of Bataan and the mountain passes of northeast Luzon Island

Tokyo broadcasts said "approximately 90" Marianas based B-29s caused some damage in the Tokyo area in an hour long daylight raid starting 40 minutes after an earthquake shook northern Japan. Superfort pilots reported "excellent results" on their raid.

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Fear Russia
Japanese expressed concern over the possibility Soviet Russia might enter the Pacific war and intensifying air raids might wreck essential communications, but expressed confidence "the Luzon front will turn into a veritable inferno for the American troops."
In Manila, five battalions of the 129th and 148th Infantry regiments were driving slowly up mined streets of Intramuros, under incessant fire of Japanese artillery, mortar and machine guns. It was a slow, painful, house to house battle through the congested walled city. The Yanks advanced 2,000 yards in what Gen. Douglas MacArthur described as the "fiercest" fighting.
Area Narrowed
The area in which the Nipponese can blast and burn buildings was being steadily narrowed by the 37th Infantry and the 11th Airborne Divisions but three fires still lighted Manila's skies.
The 25th Division fighting for Bataan sent one unit slashing ten miles down the west coast to Pataan where it captured the town of Moron. Another inched forward against jungle-hidden emplacements in the second week of the battle for Zigzag Pass.
Two river crossings were seized on the eastern Luzon plain. Other Yanks of the 32nd Division drove deeper into the Villa Verde trail, leading toward enemy concentrations on northeastern Luzon.