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...Down. When the first Americans landed on Leyte Oct. 20, there was only one Japanese division, slightly reinforced, on the island. Last week, two enemy divisions, the 1st and 26th, had been all but destroyed. The proof of the strategy was in the destruction of the enemy's armed forces. General MacArthur's running score of Japanese corpses counted in the field topped the 50,000 mark; how many others had died on or around the island was not known with certainty. Men of the hard-luck 32nd (Red Arrow) Division were notoriously hard to please, after successive...
...River. Plunging on with the momentum of their winning drive, the men of the 32nd pushed 1,000 yards south of Limon, took the enemy by surprise and forced the crossing of the Leyte River, seizing a bridge on the road. But the Japanese were not panicked. The Imperial 26th Division struck back in a vicious counterattack, U.S. troops halted the attack, but their own push was slowed to a walk...
...MacArthur said last week that his troops had wiped out the original 35,000 defenders. But the Japs by steady reinforcement had replaced them, then had landed 10,000 more. Jap units identified included the 16th Division (now virtually annihilated, said MacArthur), the 1st, 30th, 102nd and the crack 26th Division which had last been heard of as a part of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria...
...news reached France shortly after Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose secret plan to be in Paris on the 26th anniversary of Armistice Day had leaked to all & sundry. But the Prime Minister brushed aside fears for his life. Dressed in an Air Marshal's blue uniform, he rode with General Charles de Gaulle through shouting crowds, laid a wreath at the Unknown Soldier's monument, bowed in silence at Marshal Foch's tomb, made a speech (in original Churchill French) to the shouting Parisians. High point: "We have had differences in the recent troubled years...
...time Detroit had taken two out of three from the Yankees, four straight from the Red Sox, Dizzy Trout had pitched his 26th victory of the year and Lefty Hal Newhouser his 27th. Meanwhile the Tigers' unstoppable young leftfielder Dick Wakefield had taken over the league leadership with a batting average...