Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After nine months of bitter fighting, the end of the Philippine campaign was in sight. Even a few Japanese could see it. In three days 38th Division troops took 46 prisoners, probably a record for any equal period in General MacArthur's campaigns. But the rest of the Japs fought doggedly...
Their best cave-and-pillbox defense lines were cut through. On Luzon last week they lost their grip on Manila's water supply system when 38th Division troops captured Wawa Dam intact. Santa Fe fell, though some 30,000 enemy troops stood ready to fight it out on the fertile floor of the Cagayan Valley. On Mindanao Jap units were being driven back into the unexplored mountain jungles east of the Sayre Highway...
Paced by tanks, 38th Division infantrymen were storming a narrow gorge, its 500-ft. walls honeycombed with Japanese caves, leading to Wawa Dam east of Manila. The tanks stalled in the bouldered terrain. So they called up lanky Charles R. Oliver Jr., who a year ago was a Wortham, Tex. high-school student, gave him a bazooka and appointed him spearhead...
East of Manila a hot rain of incendiary bombs fell into the jungles of Woodpecker Ridge, where Jap machine gunners had been holding up the 38th Division. Flame-throwing tanks probed the wooded draws hiding enemy positions. From catapults such as the Romans used, drums of fire were hurled into caves...
Stunned and bleeding, T/5 Louis F. Korineck Jr. of Manitowoc, Wis. turned up at a battalion aid station of the 38th Division on Luzon this week, demanding to know all the details about his wound. A doctor told him a bullet had penetrated his helmet above his left ear, creased his scalp and passed out of the helmet above his right ear. Then Korineck remembered something more important than treatment: "Call the sergeant right away," he shouted. "Tell him that sniper is right where we thought...