Word: baguio
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...Major General Innis P. ("Bull") Swift's I Corps was bitterly contested. Under attack from both west and south, Rosario (see map) had been a no man's land for days, battered by naval, air and artillery bombardment, before it fell. Even from there, the road to Baguio would be uphill all the way. The Japs had big guns emplaced. Though some of these were knocked out, the enemy clung stubbornly to pillboxes and other fixed defenses. Most of the 1,017 Americans announced as killed in the first three weeks of the campaign had died in this...
...east, there was stiff local resistance, but if the Jap had been hoping to move major forces south from Vigan for a flank attack, his hopes were dampened by the sinking of 45 luggers and a transport trying to land supplies off San Fernando. Sealing of the Baguio road by U.S. forces further protected this flank...
...week on the horrors of capture by the Japs. Inexplicably, Duke University published a rather jolly piece of reading on approximately the same subject. To the quiet North Carolina campus had come a sunny, mellow letter from James Halsema, Class of '40, son of the ex-Mayor of Baguio in the Philippines and now a prisoner of the Japs at Camp Holmes in the Baguio area. Duke's publicity office released to the newspapers the entire text of the letter (some 700 words), to run, presumably, in conjunction with the fiend-ridden experiences of Lieut. Colonel William...
...Gulf had been stopped and the front was stabilized. The Jap was not yet in force in Pampanga plain. Filipino and U.S. soldiers agreed that he was going to have a hell of a time entrenching himself there, a still tougher time moving south. As on the road from Baguio, the hills still hemmed him in in all his forward positions, and the country is rough, tough and thorny...
First stray reports on U.S. missionaries in the path of Japan: Methodists said all their workers in Manila had been safely "evacuated to the mountain resort of Baguio" (which the Japs took five days later); five Catholics seized near Hong Kong were escorted by the Japanese to nearby Portuguese Macao and released; 16 missionaries headed by Methodist Bishop Ralph A. Ward reached Free China safely after fleeing from the occupied zone; one famed missionary, President J. Leighton Stuart of Yenching University, near Peking, was put into "honorable confinement...