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Advice to Corporals. Husky, long-chinned Major General Andrew Bruce had pulled his 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division back from the lines to the beaches of Leyte Gulf. On the grey sands, Krueger reviewed the force-including his son-in-law. Colonel Aubrey D. Smith, commanding the 306th Regiment. Said Father-in-Law Krueger: "I want every corporal to realize that he commands an army just as I do, except that mine is a bigger army." Then the men marched up the ramps of waiting LCIs...
Henry L. Stimson, whose weekly press conferences are Washington's most austere since Herbert Hoover's, was greeted on his 77th birthday by a chorus of reporters singing a lusty "Happy birthday, dear Henry!" Responded the shy, dignified Secretary of War: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am very grateful. After that, everything seems drab." Asked to guess the date of V-day, he said: "Well, I hope I live long enough to see V-day. Further than that the prophet sayeth...
...Marine Division, under Major General Allen Hal Turnage, formed the left flank of the drive north, and the Army's 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division, under Major General Andrew D. Bruce, formed the right. The ist Provisional Marine Brigade had mopped up Orote, whose airstrip...
While advance elements pushed rapidly forward, ahead of schedule, with casualties running at the same rate as on Saipan (150 dead & missing each day), the Army's 77th ("Statue of Liberty") Division was landed in support of the marines. The Japs quickly gathered their strength and Loyal U.S. nationals, but not citizens. counterattacked on both sectors, mainly at night, but were beaten back. At the end of four days Orote with its airstrip was cut off; several villages had been occupied; the once-sleepy capital, Agafia, shattered by shellfire, was sleepless but expectant...
...Congratulated Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada on his Dominion's 77th anniversary...