MANILA, Philippines - MANILA, Philippines (AP) - provides to us military aircraft with relief and a contingent of Marines has left the Philippine capital on the road to the coast this devastated by the typhoon in the country.
Air base of the C-130 left Manila Vilamor Monday loaded with bottled water, generators, wrapped in plastic, a forklift and two trucks.
It was the first US aid flight to the region, where thousands are feared dead and tens of thousands more homeless as a result of the Typhoon on Friday.
The flight was headed for Tacloban, a town badly damaged by the storm and in desperate need of aid.
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