There are two cities named San Jose
in the Pacific arena.
San Jose,
California. The first is an American
city located at the south end of San
Francisco
Bay (121.884W
37.345N) that was important as a rail and agricultural
center.
San Jose, Mindoro.
The second was the principal city of the island of Mindoro, just south
of Luzon
in the Philippines
(121.087E
12.347N), with a small port and airstrip. Elements of 6 Army landed
here on 15 December 1944, found no significant ground opposition, and
constructed operational airbases within two weeks.
The American bases were bombarded for twenty
minutes in February 1945 by a cruiser-destroyer force under Kimura Masatome, who
brilliantly penetrated the American defenses and got away with the loss
of a single destroyer.
References
The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia (c) 2007-2008 by Kent G. Budge. Index