Word: 37th
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This was his 37th winter wheat harvest on this land; he has never missed one since, at 15, he went to work these fields with his father. Now his 19-year-old son, Franklin III (Jack to everyone except his parents), was there to help. The Navy had given him a 20-day harvest leave...
...37th Street Gromyko turned west through a block of millinery establishments, part of the great U.S. garment industry created largely by men & women who sprang from Gromyko's part of the world, and from a lowlier station in life than his had been...
Major General Joseph M. Saving's airborne troops marched quickly down from Aparri. North to meet them pounded in fantrymen of the 37th Division, making ten to 14 miles a day. Commented the 37th's Major General Robert S. Beightler, who was later nicked lightly on the brow by a Jap shell splinter: "The Japs can't stand up to an American division on the flat. They cannot take that tremendous fire power." Two days after the jump the Cagayan Valley was U.S. territory - the 11th and 37th had met near the burning nipa huts of Alcala...
...front line the fighting was more conventional, with the U.S. 37th Division striking fast and hard along the Cagayan Valley, rolling the Japs back in front of it eight miles a day. But the forays into the Jap rear and middle were largely the work of a first-rate guerrilla outfit and its blue-eyed, sandy-haired commander...
...detect some response to the blandishments of "come with us." On Okinawa 6,932 Japanese were prisoners (2,433 were Koreans and Okinawans). In the last days they had appeared in groups sometimes 50 strong, waving red, white & blue U.S. surrender leaflets. In the Philippines 609 surrendered to the 37th Division in 36 hours...