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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...
...twin-gunned turrets out of action, but bombs & shells bounced off the fort's 18-foot-thick topside and the Japs greeted all comers with small-arms fire. Then Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey of the Seventh Amphibious Force and Major General William C. Chase of the 38th Division got up the war's oddest naval task force and sent it out to reduce the fort. TIME Correspondent William Gray, who went along reported...
...nchen-Gladbach, Corporal Sidney Talmud of the 38th Canal Construction Battalion decided to celebrate the Ninth Army's assault crossing of the Rhine and the Passover season. On the porch of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels' onetime home, he set up a camp stove and made potato pancakes for passersby...
...week began, the 24th and 38th Divisions of long-faced Major General Charles P. Hall's XI Corps were probing down the coasts of Bataan. The plan was plain, but the Japs could do nothing about it. Hall's men made faster progress by far than had Lieut. General Masaharu Homma's arrogant legions in 1942; one after another, the natural defense lines were passed...