World Battlefronts: Fireworks on Leyte

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These raiders could hardly be put in the nuisance class—they blew up an ammunition dump and a merchant ship, caused casualties. Usually the Japs came in small numbers (four was a good average), but they came often. By week's end there had been 70 separate raids. One night the Japs hit several places simultaneously every half hour between 12:30 and dawn. Tokyo's fantastic radio claimed that constant Jap attacks had driven the U.S. "Voice of Freedom" station off the air.

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