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Major General Joseph M. Saving's airborne troops marched quickly down from Aparri. North to meet them pounded in fantrymen of the 37th Division, making ten to 14 miles a day. Commented the 37th's Major General Robert S. Beightler, who was later nicked lightly on the brow by a Jap shell splinter: "The Japs can't stand up to an American division on the flat. They cannot take that tremendous fire power." Two days after the jump the Cagayan Valley was U.S. territory - the 11th and 37th had met near the burning nipa huts of Alcala...
...veteran 37th Division, under a confident Ohio National Guardsman, Major General Robert S. Beightler, drove 22 miles in 24 hours, captured Santiago, then pushed on 15 miles more. To the west, Brig. General Charles E. Hurdis' 6th Division swept up the Japanese trying to escape on Highway...
...Thirty-Seventh. Ohio is proud of its Buckeye National Guard Division, which fought in the last war at the Meuse-Argonne and Ypres-Lys. The 37th was federalized in 1940. Its commander was and still is Major General Robert S. Beightler, a civilian soldier, civil engineer and director of Ohio's State Highway Department...
Thirteen months later, the 37th landed with MacArthur in Lingayen Gulf to begin the race south for Manila. In three days it covered 50 miles. On its flank raced the spectacular ist Cavalry, rolling on wheels. Beightler swore: "We've fought our way a hundred miles and we won't let those feather merchants beat us in." Through a mid-morning mist the 37th saw Manila at last. The ist Cavalry, plunging ahead to liberate Santo Tomas, did beat them in, but it was the 37th which paddled across the Pasig River to seize the old walled Intramuros...
...battle surged to the towering, 40-ft.-thick brown walls of Intramuros, the 16th-Century inner city. An observer who watched the first shells drive home growled: "Christ, 755 just bounce off that wall." Beightler mustered h's guns. In one hour, in the greatest land barrage of the Pacific war, 10,000 shells smashed into the wall and the city just beyond. Slowly the masonry crumbled and American troops forced their...