 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Blue Ridge akatungamira San Fabian Attack Force kubva kuAitape, New Guinea musi wa 28 Zvita 1944. An aerial snooper akaendeswa kure nepfuti musi wa 2 Ndira 1945 uye achivharidzira vatakuri vanotakura ndege vakadonhedza bhomba makiromita makumi maviri kubva pakurongwa kwake zuva rakatevera. Usiku hwaJanuary 4, 1945, ngarava yemutungamiri yakatevera boka revafambisi vengarava uye vanoparadza kuburikidza neSurigao Strait kuti vapinde muGungwa reMindanao. Masikati omusi wa5 Ndira, ngarava yepasi pegungwa yomuvengi yakapfurira boka raive richivhara, makiromita gumi mberi, uye yakamanikidzwa kubuda uye yakarohwa nemudziviriri. Ndege dzemuvengi dzakarwisa boka iri musi wa7 Ndira; vaviri vakapfurwa nevatyairi veCombat Air Patrol, uye vatatu vakafa nemoto unopesana nendege. Usiku ihwohwo vaparadzi vana vakanyudza muparadzi wechiJapan makiromita gumi nerimwe kumabvazuva kweBlue Ridge. Ngarava yemutungamiri yakabatsira kudzinga ndege nhanhatu dzemuvengi musi wa 8 Ndira 1945 uye yakapinda muLingayen Gulf mambakwedza e9 Ndira. Mauto akamhanyira kumhenderekedzomangwanani iwayo, maawa anenge maviri pashure pokunge imwe ndege yomuvengi ine injini imwe chete yanyatsopinda murima romusiku, yakasvika nechemberi kwechikepe ichi, ikapotsa yapfuura bhiriji racho, ikapfuura ndokudonhedza mabhomba anenge mamita 500 nechekuruboshwe rwechikepe chacho. Chikepe chacho hachina kukuvadzwa uye hapana akafa. Mukati mokumhara kwokutanga, kurwiswa nendege katatu kwakasvika pedyo zvakakwana kuti kuve tyisidziro kuBlue Ridge, asi kwakadzokera shure mukutarisana nevanoshambira vanorwisa kuzviuraya uye zvikepe zviduku zvinokurumidza kuzviuraya. Kuti arwise tyisidziro iyi, igwa rinoronda rakachengetwa richipoterera Blue Ridge uye mapurisa ose okuchengetedza ari mungarava akasimbiswa. 