Word: 37th
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...Thirty-Seventh. Ohio is proud of its Buckeye National Guard Division, which fought in the last war at the Meuse-Argonne and Ypres-Lys. The 37th was federalized in 1940. Its commander was and still is Major General Robert S. Beightler, a civilian soldier, civil engineer and director of Ohio's State Highway Department...
...away on tour last week (its 37th), the Metropolitan Opera ran into a wartime transportation problem: its 17 freight cars, full of scenery and costumes, were classified and shipped as personal baggage of the 350 company members. But the tour promised to be worth whatever trouble it cost. In Baltimore and in Boston, clamoring queues were turned away from the box offices. In the six cities yet to be visited, advance sales soared...
Down from the north drove Major General Robert S. Beightler's 37th Infantry Division, to capture and lose the three-storied City Hall four times before finally taking it for good. In the battered stone Post Office they fought the Japanese into the pitch-dark basement and finished them off with Tommy guns, mortars and grenades, setting flares ricocheting around the walls for a few moments of light...
...demolition expert, went out on the bridge and removed the detonators from sixty 110-lb. bombs. A few troops got across, but before additional units could be rushed to their support the enemy succeeded in blowing the bridge, anyway. It took days to get the next elements of the 37th across in small boats and "alligators...
...first the battle for southern Manila was against snipers, sporadic artillery fire and the blazes set by Jap demolitionists. Progress was fairly rapid. The 1st Cavalry Division swung around to the east, secured the water supply, and turned into the city to help the 37th...