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...Philippine campaign. Built up quietly in New Guinea by big, jovial Ike Eichelberger with a staff which started training in Ben Lear's old Second Army, the Eighth went into action as an identified army late in January. The 38th Division and elements of the 24th piled ashore north of Bataan, went on to take Subic Bay and Olongapo. Two days after the first landing the 11th Airborne piled out of boats at Nasugbu and drove to the southern outskirts of Manila in 104 hours. The 511th Regimental Combat Team made the first paratroop drop of the Philippine campaign...
Then MacArthur made Luzon the exclusive business of General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army and sent battle-tried Ike Eichelberger to clean up the rest of the Philippines to the south. How well Team No. 2 had done its job was seen last week as the 24th and 31st Divisions were liquidating isolated pockets of enemy resistance on Mindanao-last of several tough nuts cracked by the Eighth Army...
...October 1944, along with the 24th and other divisions, the ist Cavalry went ashore on Leyte. Their new commander, Major General Verne D. Mudge, in the best tradition of Bull Swift, alerted his men against surprise Jap paratroop attacks with the stern words: "The best goddam way for a Jap to commit suicide is to land near a cavalry unit or otherwise horse around with a cavalry unit." The outfit seized Tacloban, later fought next to the veteran 32nd ("Red Arrow") in the bloody, muddy Ormoc pincers operation...
...tangled, vicious fight marked by constant Jap infiltration behind our lines, by Jap ambushes and night raids. Americans had to fight even to reach the 24th Division cemetery, now well behind the front lines, so they could bury the dead. Said one officer: "The woods are full of Japs. You go through them, and they close in right behind you." The country is heavily brushed flats broken by precipitous hills honeycombed with Jap installations. On Hill 550, a long ridge from which sheer knobs jut at intervals, one knob held 30 pillboxes and gun positions...
...count either. President Truman is the 32nd person to be President. If one refers to him as the 32nd President, that is half-true. But when he is called the 32nd President of the U.S., you have permitted an error to creep in. Cleveland was both the 22nd and 24th President of the U.S. It is true that the records of Congress list F.D.R. as the 31st President. But the Congress is a separate branch of the Government. Check with the Constitution. WILLIAM E. BARINGER, PH.D. The Abraham Lincoln Association Springfield...