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...battle of Manila had just begun; its deepening pall was still only a thin haze over the city. On the north side of the town, where troops of the 37th Infantry and 1st Cavalry Divisions were still hunting out Jap snipers, a command car whisked across the city limits, pulled up near a command post. Within a few minutes the word had gone down to the lowest ranks; "It's MacArthur!" Douglas MacArthur had lost no time getting back to the capital he had evacuated on Christmas Eve 1941, after declaring it an open city to save it from...
Fanned by a stiff wind from the Bay, the flames drove the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 148th Infantry (part of Ohio's 37th Division ) back from the Pasig River. The flames licked around Bilibid Prison, forcing evacuation of hundreds of civilian internees. All night the city was wreathed in fire. Next morning, as the sun burned coppery red through the pall of smoke, the two battalions of the 148th picked their way through debris and embers to the Pasig again...
...base at Cavite, seaborne elements of the nth Airborne Division drove ashore two days after the landing above Olongapo. As they bored toward the city, part of their 511th Regiment dropped down from the sky ahead of the advance, took Tagaytay Ridge overlooking Manila from the south. Meanwhile the 37th Division and the cavalry, were within striking distance of the capital...
...weary, sweaty 37th, this was a hell of a note. Growled General Beightler: "We've fought our way a hundred miles and we won't let those --feather merchants beat...
...cavalry made it, anyhow, and it was more than their vehicles that turned the trick. At Plaridel (junction of Highways 5 and 3) the 37th piled into 500 Japs entrenched there and full of fight. It took a rousing scrap to kill 250 of them, chase off the rest. As the town was secured the cavalry drove in and rolled on. The Buckeye doughboys jeered them...