WORLD WAR 2
BATTLE IN MINDANAO SEAS
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ENTIRE CONVOY WAS SUNK
A heavy cruiser takes pot shots at a Japanese convoy of thirty-two coastal cargo ships just off Mindanao in the Philippines. Two of the ships are trailing smoke off to the right of the picture and another vessel is getting the works. The entire thirty-two vessels as well as twenty sampans were sent to the bottom by Pacific Fleet carrier and surface forces commanded by Admiral William F. Halsey. This was the fleet's first attack against Mindanao and the total score of the action amounted to eighty-nine Japanese vessels of various categories, sunk or damaged, not including combat ships, and the destruction of sixty-eight enemy planes. In addition, five air fields and three ports were raked with destruction from the air. The damage to the Japanese merchant fleet was the most considerable of the war and was accomplished at no cost to our surface fleet and with only very light losses to our aircraft
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