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...Lull. When the Japanese made a move to throw in the towel, U.S. land forces were engaged in no major operations. In northeast Luzon, the 38th ("Cyclone") Division was raising the dust with its mop-up of trapped Japs, taking casualties as' well as inflicting them. In the Marianas, three companies of marines waged miniature amphibious war, seized five islets north of Saipan, lost...
...MacArthur's invaluable Team No. 2 in the Philippine campaign. Built up quietly in New Guinea by big, jovial Ike Eichelberger with a staff which started training in Ben Lear's old Second Army, the Eighth went into action as an identified army late in January. The 38th Division and elements of the 24th piled ashore north of Bataan, went on to take Subic Bay and Olongapo. Two days after the first landing the 11th Airborne piled out of boats at Nasugbu and drove to the southern outskirts of Manila in 104 hours. The 511th Regimental Combat Team...
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...