I have been in Tacloban for almost a week. Yet not a Jap aeroplane came through successfully to raid the transports in the bay, the airfield and the military installations and supplies here. This [is] concretely palpable evidence that Jap air power is no longer in a position to deliver any serious blow.

Tomas Confesor
(1891 — 1951), lawyer, legislator, constitutional convention delegate, governor of Iloilo, resistance leader. The diary covers his escape to Leyte to join Allied forces in 1945.
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30th day, Jan. 26, 1945
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