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...these veterans were Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Vella Lavella. Ahead of them, seven exasperating miles filled with Japs fighting from caves, was Baguio. Pushing in from the west, over the same kind of country, at the same pace, against the same stiff opposition, were Swift's other divisions, the 32nd and 33rd...
North toward Lingayen Gulf lay the others, widening their holdings, cheering and envying the lucky outfits that had got to Manila. They were the 6th Division, the 25th ("Tropic Lightnings"), the 32nd (National Guardsmen from Michigan and Wisconsin), the 40th (National Guardsmen from California, Nevada, Utah and New York), and the 43rd (National Guardsmen from New England...
...very end of the bitter campaign for Leyte, the Japs kept at their old tricks. The jig was up, but still some of them filtered into a regimental command post of the 32nd Division on a foully dark night. Their helmets were daubed with phosphorous paint for identification. But in close-quarter brawls, many helmets were knocked...
...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 heartbreaks in New Guinea (TIME, Dec. 4), but a colonel said of them last week: "These paddlefeet are feeling mighty pleased with themselves...
...then the 32nd and the dismounted 1st Cavalry Division had driven south in the Ormoc corridor; the Texas cavalrymen had joined with the 7th and 77th Divisions. All the Japs east of the corridor were cut off, and although some would filter back to the northwestern peninsula, they would have little hope of survival or escape. For the 77th turned west and soon brought Palompon, the Japs' last port of exit, under its guns...