Luzon Phillipine Doorway to Japan C

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Luzon, Philippine doorway to Japan. A trip where General Douglas MacKonf is truth-starmed to show in Luzon, a squadron of US fighting planes returns for mission of a Manila. Watch those fighters, Pank King.

Get back, all right. Yeah, brother, get up our team. of our team. Our poor chef fighters over Lausanne today even yesterday. That's what you said yesterday. Let's get in tougher. We have to fight our way through them today.

Japs must be sending in air reinforcements. They're not playing ping pong. Okay. We'll have your ship service for gas and ammunition for you in no time at all. The unfighted pilot with his parachute strapped securely to him stands by as his plane is serviced.

He has seen the stiffening resistance of the enemy. He's now, he's been meeting more and more opposition in the air over Luzon. He understands why. He remembers what his superiors have told him about Luzon.

Now the battle for Luzon is going to be different from the battles for the other islands in the Pacific. Just recently Premier Koisho said that Luzon is the doorway to Japan. The words of his superiors echo in his ears as he stands there watching his spider being serviced.