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Farther north, the 32nd Division and the 1st Cavalry Division (dismounted) were engaged in equally bitter, hand-to-hand combat, but drawing steadily closer to Valencia and a junction with the 77th. Japanese lines were beginning to crumble. But it had taken the bloodiest fighting of the second Philippine campaign to make them crumble. Leyte was not the pushover it had seemed when Douglas MacArthur returned to the Philippines nine weeks...
...produced a touchdown. The 77th now held the vital position on the west coast of Leyte; the position could serve as an anvil while other U.S. divisions, like hammers, pounded the Japs caught between. To the northeast were the hammers of the ist Cavalry Division (dismounted) and the 32nd Division; to the southeast was the hammer...
...plan he had insisted that U.S. patrols must keep the initiative: mud or no mud, they must keep the enemy off balance. Said Krueger: "I asked my troops to do the impossible and they did it." The next phase of Krueger's plan required the 7th and 32nd Divisions to step up their pres sure on the enemy and thus suck in his reserves. They did that, too, while the rainy season deluged them...
...Moppers-Up. What was left of the 32nd was taken back to Australia. Of 172 men in Company E of the 126th Infantry who had started the campaign, only seven were still standing. Medics said the 32nd was through...
...MacArthur had to have men if he was going to carry on his New Guinea campaign. The malaria-ridden men of the 32nd were isolated to be cured. The rest of the Division licked its wounds and waited-until lean, tough Major General William H. Gill, now their commander, stood them up and proclaimed that he was going to put the outfit together again. A year later the 32nd was back...